BIO-105 — Phage Discovery
This is the first course of a two-course student-led, hands-on, biology research project involving bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria). This course introduces students to the collection and isolation of novel bacteriophages from local soil samples. Students will purify their phage, extract the phage genome, perform restriction enzyme analysis, and prepare samples of the phage for electron microscopic imaging and genome sequencing. Novel phages will be named by the students for inclusion in phagesdb.org, a national bacteriophage database. 2/4/0
Prerequisites: BIO140, BIO141, BIO-140, BIO-103, BIO-141, BIO-104