{"id":672,"date":"2024-08-27T13:16:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T18:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/?p=672"},"modified":"2024-09-27T10:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:51:09","slug":"bsb-171-biology-i-sea-phages-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/news\/bsb-171-biology-i-sea-phages-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"BSB 171 Biology I, SEA-PHAGES, kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This semester, the Dept of Sciences and Mathematics is debuting a new course, BSB 171 Biology I. The course is part of the SEA-PHAGES consortium overseen by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEA-PHAGES is an acronym for Science Education Alliance – Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science. In the lab component of the course, each student will spend the semester isolating a type of virus called a bacteriophage and then determining if it is a previously-undiscovered type of that virus. If it is<\/em> a previously-unknown bacteriophage, the student who isolated it gets to name it and deposit the information they collected about that virus in a national database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bacteriophage viruses are found everywhere in the environment. Each student will isolate their own bacteriophage from some local site of their own choosing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In their first lab of the semester, students practiced techniques they will be using in the course over the next several months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Students<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After collecting a bacteriophage-containing sample from somewhere in the local area, it is several weeks of lab work to isolate and characterize the virus, where the students will learn state-of-the-art microbiology and molecular biology techniques necessary for their virus work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fall 2024 section of BSB 171 consists of Honors College students from various departments earning their Enlight Core Curriculum science credits through this new course based on inquiry-based learning techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In future semesters, the Department of Sciences and Mathematics will expand BSB 171 (and its follow-up BSB 172 Biology II) and encourage students from all colleges across the university to take the course and learn biology while isolating their own virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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