Honors Phage Genomics Course Featured on UMaine News
Going viral: First-year students get hands-on experience in phage genomics course
Excerpt from UMaine News, Jan. 29, 2016
There is a long list of learning objectives for the HON 150/155 phage genomics course, in which first-year undergraduates conduct hands-on research.
They learn how to purify and isolate novel bacteriophages — viruses that infect bacterial hosts — from soil samples.