{"id":1518,"date":"2015-04-25T22:26:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T22:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:30:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:30:54","slug":"phage-phest-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2015\/04\/25\/phage-phest-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Phage Phest 2015!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each spring, the College of William and Mary invites Virginia participants in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science (HHMI SEA-PHAGES) project to their campus for a meeting for students to share their research work on the isolation and characterization of novel bacteriophages from the environment. \u00a0This year, Hampden-Sydney students Josh Dimmick &#8217;15, Grayland Godfrey &#8217;15, and Taylor Meinhardt &#8217;16 accompanied Professor Mike Wolyniak to Williamsburg and gave the College&#8217;s presentation on Archie14, a <em>Bacillus thuringiensis\u00a0<\/em>bacteriophage discovered by Stephen Woodall &#8217;15 on the H-SC campus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1519\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/IMG_1335.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1519\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1519\" alt=\"Taylor Meinhardt '16, Josh Dimmick '15, and Grayland Godfrey '15 give their presentation to the William and Mary audience\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/IMG_1335-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Meinhardt &#8217;16, Josh Dimmick &#8217;15, and Grayland Godfrey &#8217;15 give their presentation to the William and Mary audience<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The SEA-PHAGES program has expanded to include over 70 institutions nationwide and more than 4,800 undergraduates conducting original research on bacteriophage genomics and evolution based out of the University of Pittsburgh. \u00a0Participating institutions include small liberal arts colleges like Hampden-Sydney, Smith, and Gettysburg and large research universities like Brown, Ohio State, and Washington State working towards a common research goal of a better understanding of bacteriophage diversity. \u00a0In Virginia, the SEA-PHAGES project is done at Hampden-Sydney, William and Mary, Mary Washington, James Madison, Virginia Commonwealth, and Old Dominion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1520\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/IMG_1338.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1520\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1520\" alt=\"Dimmick, Godfrey, Thomas Jefferson, and Meinhardt on the central campus of William and Mary.  Given as a gift by the University of Virginia, Jefferson's statue at William and Mary, his alma mater, faces Charlottesville and the University he would eventually found in the latter years of his life.\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/IMG_1338-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dimmick, Godfrey, Thomas Jefferson, and Meinhardt on the central campus of William and Mary. Given as a gift by the University of Virginia, Jefferson&#8217;s statue at William and Mary, his alma mater, faces Charlottesville and the university he would eventually found in the latter years of his life.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each spring, the College of William and Mary invites Virginia participants in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science (HHMI SEA-PHAGES) project to their campus for a meeting for students to share their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2015\/04\/25\/phage-phest-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}