SEA-PHAGES: STEM-BUILD Cohort 06
Term: Summer 2021, starting May 25, 2021
Primary Instructor: Steve Caruso
Type: In silico (phage genomics/bioinformatics)
Hosts used: Streptomyces mirabilis, Streptomyces scabiei, Bacillus thuringiensis
Number of students: 20
Meetings per week: 5
Hours per week: 15.0
We anticipate this being run online as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We will be isolating phages in real time, which the students will design protocols and then compare to the real ones while annotating previously sequenced phages.