{"id":827,"date":"2012-12-03T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T10:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=827"},"modified":"2022-11-29T14:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T14:15:11","slug":"molecular-biology-class-takes-electron-micrographs-of-discovered-bacteriophages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2012\/12\/03\/molecular-biology-class-takes-electron-micrographs-of-discovered-bacteriophages\/","title":{"rendered":"Molecular Biology class takes electron micrographs of discovered bacteriophages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_828\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/IMG_0263.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-828\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-828\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/IMG_0263-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zac Cranston &#8217;14 and &#8220;CremePhraiche&#8221;, a bacteriophage he discovered on the H-SC campus<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Molecular Biology class took a field trip to the University of Mary Washington to use their electron microscopy facility as part of the class&#8217; ongoing participation in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Science Education Alliance. \u00a0This marks the second year of H-SC&#8217;s participation in a nationwide study focused on the collection and characterization of new bacteriophages, or viruses that infect bacteria, from the environment. \u00a0UMW Drs. Lynn Lewis and Kathy Loesser-Casey kindly gave the class their time and expertise in helping them to take electron micrographs of their bacteriophages which they will use to better understand the properties of each strain. \u00a0Representative DNA samples from the class&#8217; collection have been sent to the University of Pittsburgh for sequencing, and analysis of the sequence will take place at H-SC over the spring semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Molecular Biology class took a field trip to the University of Mary Washington to use their electron microscopy facility as part of the class&#8217; ongoing participation in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Science Education Alliance. \u00a0This marks the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2012\/12\/03\/molecular-biology-class-takes-electron-micrographs-of-discovered-bacteriophages\/\">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-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","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=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}