Here is a glimpse of what is to come with the arrayer.  Here it is doing a macro-visible demonstration in living color. http://youtu.be/0Qrm1ZjIuIU

Below are the rRNA handouts and lab protocols used in a cell and molecular biology class Vondrasek.Bio 206 rRNA lab Fall 2011.  Here are some illustrations to use along with this exercise.  Vondrasek.rRNA visualization background

I am a microbiology and molecular biology professor at Bridgewater College, and was a participant of the 2010 Microarray Workshop at JMU.  The twin focuses of the workshop were the use of microarrays and the bacteriophage discovery project.  The workshop was fantastic, and has very much enriched the classes I teach, particularly Microbiology and Pathogenic …

As result of attending the workshop last summer, I developed a lab exercise for my general microbiology students, many of whom are pre-health care professionals.  Specifically, the student was required to work through these two websites (below) AND in the lab we performed Carolina’s macroarray exercise.  I adapted the Carolina literature into a student handout. The …

We have completed the wet protocols for the microarray experiment.  Now we are focusing our attention to developing student learning objectives, lesson plans, and performing the experimental slide data analysis.

Check out our JMUTube videos (posted in the Protocol Library) to get a detailed voice-over walk-through of exactly what you need to do! Thanks to current Albert Einstein School of Medicine Ph.D. student (and former JMU alumni), Lisa Brown, for making these videos possible!

We have heard from many of you that you have done some pretty amazing workshop-related activities in your classes and labs this past year.  We ask that you take just a few minutes to update your workshop participant pages with your experiences–lessons learned and success stories! Much thanks, Stephanie and Louise

Stephanie Stockwell and Louise Temple spread the word about the JMU microarray project at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans in May and Amy White presented the poster at the ASM Conference on Undergraduate Education in Baltimore in June.  These were great opportunities to meet up with old and new friends!  See the …

Within the last two years, we have been able to link our most successful discovery-based research/teaching activities–HHMI funded viral discovery and NSF funded microarrays– into a very fruitful and collaborative project.  Students trained and engaged in bacteriophage discovery are now using what they have learned about phage genomics to design new mult-phamily phage microarrays.  These …

Louise Temple, Ph.D. (PI) templelm@jmu.edu Faculty website: http://bsisat.jmu.edu/people/temple.html           Stephanie Stockwell, Ph.D. (Co-PI) stockwsb@jmu.edu Faculty website: http://www.isat.jmu.edu/people/stockwell.html       Joint Mailing Address:  701 Carrier Drive, 134 ISAT/MSC4102, Harrisonburg, VA