Phage Phest - Fall 2014
Isolating, Characterizing, and Investigating Phages
Location
Biological Sciences
Date & Time
December 3, 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Description
Phages, the tiny, powerful, and diverse viral bundles found all over the planet, have been the foci of students enrolled in UMBC’s BIOL 302L Molecular and General Genetics Lab this fall. A total of 120 students will present their work to the UMBC community on isolating, characterizing, and investigating 60 phages over three days. The presentations will be Tuesday, December 2, Wednesday, December 3 and Thursday, December 4 from approximately 2:00 - 3:30 each day, in front of the mural on the first floor of the Biological Sciences Building.
The BIOL 302L students conducted their research in two-person teams during the fall semester. They have had the rare and exciting opportunity to engage in genuine, continuous research in lieu of traditional predetermined activities typically offered in science laboratory courses. This and prior phage-based research courses have been based on the National Genomics Research Initiative Phage Hunters course supported by Science Education Alliance of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Six of the bacteriophages features in the December BIOL 302L poster session will be sequenced during the winter break, with one or more used for analysis in BIOL 316L, Phage Hunters Genome Analysis, in Spring 2015. Twenty-four of the 120 student researchers in BIOL 302L will continue their experiments next semester in BIOL 316L.
Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to visit the poster session to learn more about the work of the BIOL 302L students. These undergraduate researchers are justifiably proud of their time and effort, as they have accomplished more during this course than have students in any previous semester with 60 phages isolated, characterized, and investigated.
Come be part of this exciting investigation! Your presence adds immeasurably to the research experience.
The BIOL 302L students conducted their research in two-person teams during the fall semester. They have had the rare and exciting opportunity to engage in genuine, continuous research in lieu of traditional predetermined activities typically offered in science laboratory courses. This and prior phage-based research courses have been based on the National Genomics Research Initiative Phage Hunters course supported by Science Education Alliance of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Six of the bacteriophages features in the December BIOL 302L poster session will be sequenced during the winter break, with one or more used for analysis in BIOL 316L, Phage Hunters Genome Analysis, in Spring 2015. Twenty-four of the 120 student researchers in BIOL 302L will continue their experiments next semester in BIOL 316L.
Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to visit the poster session to learn more about the work of the BIOL 302L students. These undergraduate researchers are justifiably proud of their time and effort, as they have accomplished more during this course than have students in any previous semester with 60 phages isolated, characterized, and investigated.
Come be part of this exciting investigation! Your presence adds immeasurably to the research experience.
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