SEA-PHAGES: Fall 2020 302L-04

Primary Instructor: Steve Caruso

Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)

Hosts used: Streptomyces mirabilis, Streptomyces scabiei

Number of students: 20

Juniors: 1

Seniors: 19

Meetings per week: 2

Hours per week: 4.0

This will be a combined discovery/bioinformatics section run online as a result of the COVID19 pandemic. We will be isolating phages in real time with the help of undergraduate teaching assistants - for which the students will design protocols and then compare to the real ones. We will also be annotating previously sequenced phages.