Page 2 – Life and Biology

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…

Virology-Focused Websites

31 May 201821 Aug 2018

For Virology CDC Expasy's ViralZone ViPR (Virus Pathogen Resource): mostly sequence database? Nature Publishing Topic (Virology) Science Collection (Virology) PLoS Pathogen "Pearls" about Viruses virology blog: About viruses and viral diseases…

Virology – Additional Reading

31 May 201819 Oct 2018

For Virology Chapter 1: Introduction IFITM3 restricts the morbidity and mortality associated with influenza Chapter 2: General properties A comprehensive and quantitative exploration of thousands of viral genomes Unbiased strain-typing of…

Plasmid basics

30 May 20186 Jun 2018

I found that the blog post about plasmids that I had outlined in my head had been written already on a website called Addgene. The beginning of the Addgene post echoes…