Hi, so we focused on our specific bacteriophage Captain Knuckles because each phage that is derived from soil is different. So my phage may be the same morphotype as someone else but the overall biology of it is different. When we first started out we were looking for plaque from our soil sample that would indicate if we had a phage at all. So basically we wanted to find phage within our soil sample.
I really liked your presentation! It was very thorough and organized well. I was wondering, however, if you could explain a little bit more about what phage therapy is?
So phage therapy is a type of treatment that is specific to the patients illness. So only a specific phage can kill and target the harmful bacteria. It is a better treatment than using antibiotics because if the person were to start becoming resistant to the phage therapy, the phage would evolve and still do its job with less side affects than antibiotics. Thank you!!
I’m not sure if there’s a specific purpose but what I can say is discovering new phages gives researchers a vast data base so they have the opportunity to see which phages can eliminate certain viruses. So this way they wont have to get new samples each time and go through a bunch of experiments to see what works and doesn’t. With the discovery of new phages that are added to the data base I would say it makes phage therapy easier. It would be easier to find a phage that can eliminate your targeted bacteria.
I cannot fully answer this question because more research would need to be done on our specific phage to see what it can be used for. Like what bacteria can it kill. However since our phage is lytic it is possible sometime in the future it would be a good candidate for phage therapy.
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Good presentation! Can you explain why you focused your research on your specific bacteriophage and what exactly you were looking to find?
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Hi, so we focused on our specific bacteriophage Captain Knuckles because each phage that is derived from soil is different. So my phage may be the same morphotype as someone else but the overall biology of it is different. When we first started out we were looking for plaque from our soil sample that would indicate if we had a phage at all. So basically we wanted to find phage within our soil sample.
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I really liked your presentation! It was very thorough and organized well. I was wondering, however, if you could explain a little bit more about what phage therapy is?
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So phage therapy is a type of treatment that is specific to the patients illness. So only a specific phage can kill and target the harmful bacteria. It is a better treatment than using antibiotics because if the person were to start becoming resistant to the phage therapy, the phage would evolve and still do its job with less side affects than antibiotics. Thank you!!
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What is the purpose of trying to discover new phages? Is there some way this could be used in phage therapy?
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I’m not sure if there’s a specific purpose but what I can say is discovering new phages gives researchers a vast data base so they have the opportunity to see which phages can eliminate certain viruses. So this way they wont have to get new samples each time and go through a bunch of experiments to see what works and doesn’t. With the discovery of new phages that are added to the data base I would say it makes phage therapy easier. It would be easier to find a phage that can eliminate your targeted bacteria.
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HI! I thought your presentation was really good! What do you think this specific phage could be used for?
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I cannot fully answer this question because more research would need to be done on our specific phage to see what it can be used for. Like what bacteria can it kill. However since our phage is lytic it is possible sometime in the future it would be a good candidate for phage therapy.
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