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Dan Russell
| May 9, 2013
Guesses for the Grand Challenge have been submitted, the winners have been notified, and I'm impressed and excited by the diversity of approaches taken to attempt to solve this problem. It should make for some excellent poster-browsing and an interesting …
Tags: Symposium, grand challenge
Debbie Jacobs-Sera
| Apr 5, 2013
As the last Question of Month for this school year, we would like you to think about how your analyses of your bacteriophage genome(s) can direct the kinds of questions you can ask about bacteriophages.
Using the genome(s) you have analyzed, …
Using the genome(s) you have analyzed, …
Tags: QOTM
Debbie Jacobs-Sera
| Mar 7, 2013
The two photos shown here display a ten-fold dilution series of infection of 8 phages on M. smegmatis mc2 155 and M. smegmatis mc2 155 (Courthouse). M. smegmatis mc2155 (Courthouse) is a lysogen made with Mycobacteriophage Courthouse. How would you …
Debbie Jacobs-Sera
| Feb 13, 2013
Scenario: The entire class of 20 students used the auto-annotation function of DNA Master to predict the genes of your class phage. Not all results returned the same number of genes and features? Why?
As you answer this question, please report …
As you answer this question, please report …
Debbie Jacobs-Sera
| Dec 17, 2012
Happy New Year! Before we move to the dark side of bacteriophages, the bioinformatic side, I thought one more question about plaque morphology could be appropriate. Here is a photo of plaques (on M. smeg) of Mycobacteriophage Spartacus that have …
Tags: QOTM, plaque morphology
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