Monthly Archives: September 2013

By Lizzy Glass I first heard about the Phage Hunting class when I visited during SOHOP this past April. The class sounded interesting, and I was fascinated by the research component of the course. I planned my entire schedule around … Continue reading →

By Deborah Chin There was only one class I truly enjoyed in high school: Biotechnology. In the Regional Occupational Program course called Biotechnology, we worked in a lab and created recombinant DNA which incorporated the red and green fluorescent protein … Continue reading →

By J. J. Louw In high school, the extent of my lab skills as it pertained to Biology simply meant being able to watch and record time simultaneously as spinach disks rose to the top of a cup. Riveting stuff, … Continue reading →

By Andrew Greenhalgh Project Lab: Phage Hunting has introduced me to the idea that everything I do during my daily life is in one way or another affected by phages. Just today, I was at the FFC and picked up … Continue reading →

By Elisabeth Wenneker I have mixed solutions together in high school chemistry class to create precipitates and extracted strawberry DNA with dish soap and a Ziploc bag in biology, but I have never done laboratory research before becoming a Phage … Continue reading →

By Christine Situ I don’t think I’ll ever forget my first assignment here at Hopkins: Get some dirt. The goal of being a Phage Hunter is to isolate and characterize a bacteriophage from the environment. So if I’m looking for … Continue reading →