Page 2 – Life and Biology

Chapter 1 Student Questions

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…

Fit to Fight the Flu

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…

Eight Independent Lines of Evidence for Evolution

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…

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…

Course syllabi

New syllabi have been added to the following course sites: Discover Biology Lab Evolution Virology

Lab Meeting – June 6, 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…

Week 4 – Hannah, Camille, and Kristine

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…

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…