Comments for Microbial Population Biology

Comment on basic microbiology resource for you grantwriters by jessica

jessica — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:30:47 +0000

Hi Vaughn, I know this is late, but, I was hoping to get your input on my possible grant proposal topic. I wanted to look into engineering a phage to seek out cancer cells. I don’t know if this is too far fetched or not. I have found some, useful articles out there, but I’m having a bit of an anxiety attack about it, and I’m wondering if I should switch out for something different.

Comment on Class for 3/30: Sex and cheating in RNA viruses by rachelm

rachelm — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:29:29 +0000

Hi Vaughn,
Thanks for your comment. I will look over the article again and try to post more in a few days. If you could take a look at it once I make that post I think it would help me out. Thanks!

Rach

Comment on Class for 3/30: Sex and cheating in RNA viruses by jessica

jessica — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:15:24 +0000

Hi Vaughn,
I’m not sure if you had any attendance method for today, but I wanted to let you know that I wasn’t in class (or any class) today due to what my doctor thinks is a norovirus. I have a doctor’s note that I’ll be carrying with me for the next few days if you wanted to look at it.

Thanks,
Jess P.

Comment on Class for 3/30: Sex and cheating in RNA viruses by Vaughn

Vaughn — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:50:02 +0000

Hope you’re all having fun dissecting sex and cheating in viruses. Please let me know how class turns out.

Comment on 2010 Lectures by Vaughn

Vaughn — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:41:25 +0000

Yes, all updated slides will be posted today.
VC

Comment on 2010 Lectures by davidx

davidx — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:47:07 +0000

Will you be positing the Additional Lectures, and Stephens presentation for us to study for on the Thursday Exam?

Comment on 2009 Microbial Triathlon (UPDATED) by karen

karen — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:51:50 +0000

What are we supposed to do if the other people haven’t posted their data yet?

Comment on Why are some parasites so virulent and others so mild? by Vaughn

Vaughn — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:09:00 +0000

Hi Shana — got your email but glad you posted. See below; I’ve updated the assignment. But regarding the plot, just create a scatter plot, connected by lines, of OD600 over time for each of your 4 experimental replicates.

And yes, you can delete one of your replicates if it’s an outlier but you must justify it in your report.

Comment on Why are some parasites so virulent and others so mild? by shana

shana — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:59:28 +0000

Hi Vaughn,

just a couple questions on the lab report.

1.a) Plot the mean of each replicate of your two strains as OD vs time.– can you just clear this up for me a little–

Also I understood how to calculate the AUC, but what do these tell me?

Also can I get rid of one of my replicates because it is obviously an outlier in the data..

thanks!
Shana
( I can also send an email, but I thought other students might have the same questions)

Comment on Discussion, guide for reading / blogging, terminology by Vaughn

Vaughn — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:36:48 +0000

Hi Katie and others,

Yes — there’s a new reading assignment as described in the syllabus (Cohan and Perry). Please dig into this and consider how this helps you define the Sulfolobus species.