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The official website of the HHMI Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science program.

Video Channel: Phage Discovery: Protocols
Tutorials for the basic wet-lab work of discovering phages.
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Phage Discovery Protocol: Picking a Plaque

How to collect phage particles from a well-isolated plaque on a plate into buffer.

Vic Sivanathan and Billy Biederman

Added: Jun 8, 2017

Phage Discovery Protocol: Spot Test

A demonstration of how to do a spot test to determine whether or not a sample contains viable phage particles.

Vic Sivanathan and Billy Biederman

Added: Jun 8, 2017

Phage Discovery Protocol: Serial Dilution

How to prepare serial dilutions of a phage lysate in preparation for plating/titering.

Vic Sivanathan and Billy Biederman

Added: Jun 8, 2017

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