SEA-PHAGES Sections
BIOL 101 HON Concepts in Biol
Primary Instructor: Roy Coomans
Additional Instructor: Rob Newman
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 16
Freshmen: 13
Sophomores: 2
Seniors: 1
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.5
BIOL 102 HON Concepts II Lab
Primary Instructor: Roy Coomans
Additional Instructor: Rob Newman
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 12
Freshmen: 7
Sophomores: 2
Juniors: 2
Seniors: 1
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 3.5
BIOL 276 001
Primary Instructor: Liesl Jeffers-Francis
Additional Instructor: Rob Newman
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Arthrobacter globiformis
Number of students: 19
Freshmen: 4
Sophomores: 8
Juniors: 5
Seniors: 2
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 6.0
BIOL277/001
Primary Instructor: Roy Coomans
Additional Instructor: Rob Newman
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 5
Sophomores: 4
Seniors: 1
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 4.0
This was our first cohort of students in the In Silico course. The students did a great job learning to use and apply various bioinformatics tools to successfully annotate the Bactobuster genome.