Four letter SEA-PHAGES code: WUSL
Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Website: http://www.wustl.edu/
Joined SEA-PHAGES: PHAGES Cohort 1 (started in 2008)
Buddy school: Culver-Stockton College
Term type: None
Total SEA-PHAGES sections taught: 28
Total SEA-PHAGES students: 582
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Academic Terms
Spring 2024
Start: Jan 16, 2024, End: Apr 26, 2024
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Afternoon section
Primary Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Additional Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: No host information yet.
Number of students: 25
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Afternoon section
Primary Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Additional Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: No host information yet.
Number of students: 30
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Fall 2023
Start: Aug 28, 2023, End: Dec 08, 2023
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Afternoon Section
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Additional Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: No host information yet.
Number of students: 18
Freshmen: 18
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Morning Session
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Additional Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Streptomyces lividans
Number of students: 17
Freshmen: 17
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Fall 2023
Start: Aug 28, 2023, End: Dec 08, 2023
PHAGES Sections in this Term
No sections entered for this term yet
Spring 2023
Start: Jan 16, 2023, End: Apr 28, 2023
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Bio 192
Primary Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Additional Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Additional Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Streptomyces lividans
Number of students: 28
Freshmen: 28
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Fall 2022
Start: Aug 29, 2022, End: Dec 09, 2022
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Afternoon section
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Additional Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Streptomyces lividans
Number of students: 16
Freshmen: 16
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Morning section
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Additional Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Streptomyces lividans
Number of students: 17
Freshmen: 17
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Spring 2021
Start: Jan 25, 2021, End: May 05, 2021
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Bio 192
Primary Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Streptomyces lividans
Number of students: 21
Freshmen: 21
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
will be 100% remote via zoom sessions to start, may migrate to hybrid online/live by end of semester.
Fall semester 2020
Start: Sep 14, 2020, End: Jan 10, 2021
24 students in 2 sections (fewer students than usual due to Covid). Course being taught in person with students attending half of the time in person and the other half on Zoom.
PHAGES Sections in this Term
section 01
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Streptomyces lividans
Number of students: 12
Freshmen: 12
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Spring 2020
Start: Jan 13, 2020, End: Apr 24, 2020
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Bio 192
Primary Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Additional Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Streptomyces viridochromogenes
Number of students: 20
Freshmen: 20
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Fall 2019
Start: Aug 26, 2019, End: Dec 06, 2019
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Bio 191 Afternoon
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Additional Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Streptomyces viridochromogenes
Number of students: 18
Freshmen: 18
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Bio 191 morning
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Additional Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Streptomyces lividans
Number of students: 18
Freshmen: 18
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Spring 2019
Start: Jan 14, 2019, End: Apr 26, 2019
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Bio 192
Primary Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Additional Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Streptomyces griseofuscus
Number of students: 28
Freshmen: 28
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Fall 2018
Start: Aug 27, 2018, End: Dec 07, 2018
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Bio 191 Afternoon Section
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Additional Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Streptomyces griseofuscus
Number of students: 15
Freshmen: 15
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Bio 191 Morning Section
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Additional Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Streptomyces griseofuscus
Number of students: 17
Freshmen: 17
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
spring semester 2018
Start: Jan 16, 2018, End: Apr 27, 2018
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Bio 192 section 01
Primary Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Streptomyces griseofuscus, Streptomyces lividans
Number of students: 30
Freshmen: 29
Sophomores: 1
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Bio 192 section 01
Primary Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Additional Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Streptomyces griseofuscus, Streptomyces lividans
Number of students: 30
Freshmen: 29
Sophomores: 1
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
fall 2017 semester
Start: Aug 28, 2017, End: Dec 08, 2017
PHAGES Sections in this Term
section 01
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Additional Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Streptomyces lividans
Number of students: 18
Freshmen: 18
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
section 02
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Streptomyces lividans
Number of students: 18
Freshmen: 18
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Fall 2016/ Spring 2017
Start: Aug 29, 2016, End: Apr 28, 2017
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Bio 191
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Additional Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Streptomyces viridochromogenes
Number of students: 36
Freshmen: 36
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Bio 192
Primary Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Streptomyces viridochromogenes
Number of students: 21
Freshmen: 21
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
spring 2016
Start: Jan 19, 2016, End: Apr 29, 2016
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Bio 192
Primary Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Additional Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Streptomyces sp.
Number of students: 23
Freshmen: 23
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
We are annotating genomes from Streptomyces viridochromogenes and S. lividans
Fall 2015
Start: Aug 24, 2015, End: Dec 04, 2015
Two sections of ~18 students. Isolation being attempted on two different strains Streptomyces viridochromogenes and Streptomyces lividans
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Afternoon Section
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: No host information yet.
Number of students: 18
Freshmen: 18
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Morning Section
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: No host information yet.
Number of students: 16
Freshmen: 16
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Summer 2015
Start: May 10, 2015, End: Jun 05, 2015
Summer phage annotation and programming course. Full time 40 hr/week. 50% phage finishing and annotation; 50% Introduction to Java Programming
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Summer Phage Camp
Primary Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: Other
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 11
Freshmen: 11
Meetings per week: 5
Hours per week: 40.0
spring semester 2015
Start: Jan 12, 2015, End: Apr 24, 2015
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Bio 1920
Primary Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Additional Instructor: Chris Shaffer
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 25
Freshmen: 25
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Fall 2014
Start: Aug 25, 2014, End: Dec 19, 2014
PHAGES Sections in this Term
Afternoon Fall '14
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 16
Freshmen: 16
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Morning Fall '14
Primary Instructor: Kathleen Weston-Hafer
Type: In situ (phage discovery/microbiology)
Hosts used: Mycobacterium smegmatis
Number of students: 20
Freshmen: 20
Meetings per week: 2
Hours per week: 5.0
Institution Addresses
Current Mailing Address
Kathy Hafer
Washington University in St. Louis
box 1137
One Brookings Dr
st louis, MO 63139
USA
Current Shipping Address
Kathy Hafer
Washington University in St. Louis
Dept of Biology
One Brookings Dr
133 Rebstock Hall
st louis, MO 63139
USA