Monthly Archives: March 2014

How To Go From Resting To Stressing In One Day

Posted on March 31, 2014 by vanessaphuong

By Vanessa Phuong Coming back from a sunshine-and-fun-filled spring break in North Carolina where the weather gods are more sensible and merciful, it was pretty hectic when I was suddenly thrown back into the Johns Hopkins way of life, handling … Continue reading →

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Technical Difficulties

Posted on March 30, 2014 by maggielederer

By Maggie Lederer I’ve always thought of myself as somewhat tech-savvy and I swear by my Macbook Pro. At the beginning of the semester, we were asked to download Virtual Box, a program that allows you to create a virtual … Continue reading →

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Phage Hunting: Part 2

Posted on March 28, 2014 by blu92

By Billy Lu Second semester started out entirely different from the first. In the beginning of the first semester, we were thrown into a laboratory environment and followed a procedure to isolate a pure phage population and extract its DNA. … Continue reading →

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From Plugged In to Beached Out: Phage Hunting Dos

Posted on March 22, 2014 by osmanko

By Kareem Osman As I lounge here in my sunny spring break abode, I can’t help but marvel at the marked dichotomy between work and play that has characterized the first leg of my second semester (of phage hunting of … Continue reading →

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Through the Looking Glass

Posted on March 21, 2014 by appleonia4

By Alexander Peterson After working in wet lab with phages, the oldest biological systems on the planet, I thought that dealing with the man-made, short-lived software for annotating phage genomes would be easy.  Boy, was I wrong.  It turns out … Continue reading →

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It’s in our jeans…or rather, our genes!

Posted on March 18, 2014 by lizzyliu

By Elizabeth Liu I started the semester super excited that I was enrolled in phage hunting. It was one of my favorite classes last semester and I would look forward to it every Monday and Wednesday – it was very … Continue reading →

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Annotating genes before Spring Break!

Posted on March 17, 2014 by awang40

By Annette Wang Phage Hunting this semester has been an interesting change from the fall. We haven’t been in the lab and instead we’ve been sitting in a classroom annotating genes. Doesn’t sound as fun, but it’s been an obstacle … Continue reading →

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A Whole New World

Posted on March 16, 2014 by hammaadshah

By Hammaad Shah This second semester of Phage Hunting has proven to be very different from the first. I came into this semester knowing that I would be annotating a genome, but not really understanding what that would entail. While … Continue reading →

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The Eternal Struggle

Posted on March 15, 2014 by jlaw5

By Jody Law Honestly, if I could sum up this semester in one word, it would be “confused”. Last semester, we had a lab manual that was easy to follow (even though we deviated quite a bit). I felt like … Continue reading →

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Uh-Oh, My Genes Weren’t This Tight the Last Time I Wore Them

Posted on March 14, 2014 by scohen62

By Sarah Cohen You know you’ve got phage on the mind when you start texting your friend about “Acid Wash Genes.” After spending roughly two class periods discussing how to annotate the genes of our phage, Altwerkus, we were finally … Continue reading →

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