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September 3, 2019

MSUM students participating in classroom-based undergraduate research project

MSUM students are now participating in a unique Classroom-Based Undergraduate Research (CURE) project, which aims to tackle antibiotic resistance. “SEA-PHAGES (Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science) is a two-semester, discovery-based undergraduate research course that begins with simple digging in the soil to find new viruses, but progresses through a variety of microbiology techniques and eventually to complex […]

Academics
September 3, 2019

Wallace, Kramar and students attend Nutrient Network Workshops

Dr. Alison Wallace from Biosciences and Dr. David Kramar from Anthropology and Earth Sciences attended the 2019 Nutrient Network Workshops at the University of Minnesota campus in St. Paul with biosciences students Patrice Delaney and Andie Wood. The workshops were a great opportunity to collaborate with research teams from around the world (Argentina to Mongolia), present the current work at […]

Academics
September 3, 2019

Leach presents at national symposium

This summer, sophomore MSUM Biochemistry and Biotechnology major Kelsey Leach was invited to give an oral presentation at the national SEA-PHAGES Annual Symposium organized by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Her presentation was entitled “Isolation and Characterization of Microbacterium phage Etta and Discovery of Bacteriophage Vers using a Novel Antarctic Cryobacterium Isolate.” This research project began as part of a […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry
August 27, 2019

Ladbury’s publication accepted for Journal of College Science Teaching

Jared Ladbury, Psychology, and colleagues from NDSU have had a publication accepted at the Journal of College Science Teaching detailing an NSF-funded faculty development program currently being implemented at NDSU. Full citation is Vosen-Callens, M., Kelter, P. B., Motschenbacher, J., Nyachwaya, J., Ladbury, J. L., & Semanko, A. M. (in press). Developing and implementing a campus-wide professional development program: Successes […]

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