Virus Biotechnology: Pathogens to Therapeutics

This is a curriculum development project. Designed for an 8-week module course format, this project introduces Ranaviruses as a classroom laboratory model system.

Poster of course outline presented at 2015 International Symposium on Ranaviruses – Gainesville, FL

Microbrew handouts presented at 2016 American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators – Bethesda, MD

‘Unique Down to our Microbes…’

Students get to work with BIG data in this inquiry-based metagenomics classroom activity. Following the scientific method, students are guided through development of their own hypothesis, which they then test with a metagenomics data set.

Poster presented at 2016 American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators – Bethesda, MD

‘Viruses Without Borders’

The focus of this activity is data interpretation. Students reference a panel of infectious pathogens while trying to deduce whether their subject may be carrying a deadly threat across borders.