Seeking phage data for undergraduate Bioanalytical Phage course
Maria Cambraia Guimaro, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
I am a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate working for STEM BUILD, an undergraduate success initiative investigating ways to enhance the diversity and success of STEM students. We offer an 8-week Summer Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience during their sophomore year. Initially, we were planning to have the students performing molecular biology experiments and chemistry analytical experiments about phages or their environments. Usually, the students perform some analysis, write an abstract, and present a poster at a local undergraduate symposium.
As we will not be able to perform bench experiments on campus due to COVID-19, I am trying to get access to previously generated data related to phages (or to their original environment) to analyze with our students. I am seeking researchers willing to share any spare analytical data (chromatography, mass spectrometry, pH, samples moisture, cations, salt concentration, organic matter, microscopy images, etc) that can be used in our class. You would be included in any analysis or material produced by our students during this summer experience. Additionally, is anyone aware of any online bank or open database where researchers deposit analytical/chemical data from phages? The data could be also related to the environment where these phages were collected (soil, water, etc) or any other analysis related to phages.
If you can help, please contact me at cambraia@umbc.edu.
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