SEA-PHAGES

First Week Ideas

Lab Safety Overview (SEA-PHAGES)

Bench Number

Name on Label Tape on Lab Coats

Pipetting by Design

Agar Diffusion

Dollar Culturing to set up motivation for aseptic technique and the role of phage in the environment

Sample Collection Kits

What to Bring Next Week

Reading

Travis, J. (2003). All the world's a phage: Viruses that eat bacteria abound—and surprise. Science News, 164(2), 26-27; http://www.phschool.com/science/science_news/articles/all_worlds_phage.html ; https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=3754690719355237646

Mann, N. H. (2005). The third age of phage. PLoS Biology, 3(5), e182; http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0030182 ; https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=8983556190157570421

Rohwer, F., & Segall, A. M. (2015). In retrospect: a century of phage lessons. Nature, 528(7580), 46; http://hmjaag.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Nature-2015.pdf ; https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=6653877360359958294

Gilbert, J. A., & Neufeld, J. D. (2014). Life in a world without microbes. PLoS Biology, 12(12), e1002020; http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002020 ; https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=13377317378749833528

Young, R., & Gill, J. J. (2015). Phage therapy redux—What is to be done?. Science, 350(6265), 1163-1164; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6005185/ ; https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=10822743933444756726

Rohwer, F., Youle, M., Maughan, H., & Hisakawa, N. (2014). Life in our phage world. San Diego: Wholon, 8(8); http://2015phage.org/art.php

Touchon, M., de Sousa, J. A. M., & Rocha, E. P. (2017). Embracing the enemy: the diversification of microbial gene repertoires by phage-mediated horizontal gene transfer. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 38, 66-73; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317038382_Embracing_the_enemy_The_diversification_of_microbial_gene_repertoires_by_phage-mediated_horizontal_gene_transfer ; https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=3814489289688138941

Weber, L. (2017). Sewage Saved This Man’s Life. Someday It Could Save Yours. HuffPost, Wellness Section, Published online: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-phage-therapy_us_5913414de4b05e1ca203f7d4

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