Phage Fishing

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Phage Fishing Teacher Workshop July 17-21,
2006 Department of Biology Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Peter Weigele Mandana
Sassanfar and Jonathan King
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Fourteen H.S. teachers from Central and Western
MA 5 day laboratory workshop and seminars on
environmental phages isolate phage from
Charles River Estuary using laboratory and
endogenous hosts purify phage characterize
morphology, DNA, and protein Pilot for broader
outreach project using phage as a vehicle for
students to do real science around the themes of
water borne illness in and the ecology of their
own local aquatic environments.
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Dottie and her team got plaques of varying
morphologies!
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Phages had characteristic protein banding
patterns on SDS-gels
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