2 credits
Spring 2026 Laboratory Upper Division
The course is a Course Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE), more specifically, a part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) (http://www.hhmi.org/grants/sea/) Science Education Alliance and is an authentic research experience. Students engage in hands-on discovery as scientists with the ultimate objective of contributing new mycobacteriophage genomes to the scientific literature and public databases (www.phagesdb.org and the Purdue institution page can be found here: https://phagesdb.org/institutions/PURD/).
Learning Outcomes1Analyze the genetic code of a unique phage in order to determine potential genes.
2Discover the genomic organization of their unique phage.
3Use algorithms to define potential genes, assign putative functions to them, and determine the order in which they appear in the genome.
4Read and discuss scientific literature related to their research project.
5Share the information gathered with others in the scientific community.
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