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Virology

Chapter 1 Student Questions

31 Aug 2018
For Virology Did having bacteria and air-borne contamination with cultures of viruses skew results? Were they trying to correlate a grown virus with a certain illness, and did contamination ever…
Virology

Fit to Fight the Flu

24 Aug 2018
Influenza virus, the causative agent of flu, has a genome composed of segmented, single-stranded, negative sense RNA.  This combination leads to challenges for your immune system because this virus can…
Evolution

Eight Independent Lines of Evidence for Evolution

24 Aug 2018
For Introduction to Evolution We will be reading The Tangled Bank by Carl Zimmer this semester as we are introduced to evolution.  Chapter 1 of that book brings up the…
Evolution

Nothing in Biology Makes Sense…

24 Aug 201811 Sep 2018
The creation vs. evolution debate can grow very tiresome.  We will avoid spinning our wheels on this never-ending, heated disagreement for most of the semester.  However, today's the day we…
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Course syllabi

22 Aug 2018
New syllabi have been added to the following course sites: Discover Biology Lab Evolution Virology  
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Lab Meeting – June 6, 2018

5 Jun 2018
BRIC Academy- Next Week Take everything we need from downstairs lab to upstairs lab on Friday. Upward Bound Unite Grant (High school kids) Possibly two high school students/per 1 undergrad…
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Week 4 – Hannah, Camille, and Kristine

5 Jun 2018
For TRIM Protein Research (TRIM5a, TRIM8, TRIM13, & TRIM58) Accomplishments:   TRIM5a digests confirmed successful insertion into mAzurite and pEGFP-C1. Seeded a culture of HEK-293 cells to begin protocols for transfection…
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Week 3 – Hannah, Camille, and Kristine

4 Jun 20184 Jun 2018
For TRIM Proteins Research (TRIM5a, TRIM8, TRIM13, & TRIM58)  Accomplishments:   Successful transformation of TRIM5a into mAzurite.  Successful recombination/transformation of TRIM13 into pGADT7.  PCR produced a band for TRIM5a for insertion into fluorescent…

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Nicknamed "LaB", Life and Biology is a project initiated by Dr. Joel Graff. Here I share biology content for both my students at Montana Tech and anyone else that is curious about the topic. Feel free to snoop around the site and offer me any feedback you may have using the "Contact" page.
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