Below we've collected articles—from a variety of sources—that are related to the SEA-PHAGES program. If you know of an article that should be added to this collection, please contact us and let us know about it!
Steele commended by Nobel Prize winner for her work
Archer County News | April 21, 2016
It is not often that a freshman in college is approached and commended for research by a Nobel Prize winner, but that is exactly what happened to Archer City graduate, London Steele, now a freshman at Baylor University....read more
Related institution: Baylor University
Queens University student discovers a virus strain
The Charlotte Observer | April 16, 2016
Sydney Dishman’s new pet isn’t cute and certainly isn’t something you’d want to cuddle with. But she feels good just thinking about it. Her “pet” is named Rex16, after the Queens University of Charlotte mascot and her year of graduation. Rex16 is a bacteriophage species she discovered while completing her honors research thesis, investigating bacteriophages in local soil samples....read more
Related institution: Queens University of Charlotte
Del Mar student takes home award for research on bacteriophages
Corpus Christi Caller Times | March 29, 2016
Before John Ramirez, 29, decided to go back to school, he worked at Northwest Hospital in Calallen. There, he saw how tuberculosis affected people. "It's almost intensified when you see it," Ramirez said....read more
Related institution: Del Mar College
Students in interactive course look to discover, name phages
Western Carolina News | Sept. 30, 2015
Western Carolina University student Sean Kent didn’t pick the course, but when he saw he was registered for it, the name “Phage Hunters” immediately got his attention. Brooke Burns also found she was placed in the course. After hearing so many other freshmen at orientation say they were excited about WCU’s newest biology/chemistry course, she, too, decided to keep it. Now she says it’s by far her favorite....read more
Related institution: Western Carolina University
Going viral: C of I students attend HHMI symposium
The College of Idaho—Student News | Aug. 4, 2015
Jetblade. The name might sound like the newest Marvel superhero to hit the big screen, but it’s actually the newest bacterial virus analyzed by College of Idaho students....read more
Related institution: College of Idaho
Student ‘Virus Hunters’ publish research in peer journal
FGCU 360 | July 2, 2015
Students and faculty involved in FGCU’s “Honors Virus Hunters” course helped produce a research paper that has been accepted for publication in eLife, a highly ranked peer-reviewed scientific journal for the biomedical and life sciences....read more
Related institution: Florida Gulf Coast University
This scientific paper has 2,863 authors. How?
Fusion | May 12, 2015
The scientific journal eLife published a paper on viruses last month—specifically, the genetics of bacteriophages: viruses that infect, and replicate within, bacteria. By sequencing the genomes of individual bacteriophages, or phages, the authors were able to glean information about the genetic makeup of the viruses more broadly.... read more
UWF Biology And Chemistry Crews Team Up To Hunt Phages
wuwf 88.1 | May 12, 2015
The University of West Florida has been chosen to pioneer a unique collaboration between its chemistry and biology departments. Let’s start off with an important definition....read more
Related institution: University of West Florida
Research paper with 2,863 authors expands knowledge of bacteriophages
Science Daily | May 11, 2015
We know that bacteriophages are viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria. We know that they are the most abundant organisms on Earth. But we don't know much about their genetic architecture....read more
Related institution: University of Pittsburgh
Freshmen participate in huge research study on tiny viruses
CU Boulder Today | May 1, 2015
A new study appearing this week in the scientific journal eLIFE about the rapid evolution of small viruses that infect bacteria includes 59 University of Colorado Boulder co-authors, all of whom conducted research for the paper as freshmen....read more
Related institution: University of Colorado at Boulder