Outreach
Bringing virology and microbiology to MSU students, Montana schools and the wider community.
Course · HONR 291
Students collect samples and isolate viruses from the local wastewater treatment facility. They image the viruses they find by electron microscopy and sequence their genomes with Nanopore technology.
Class size is limited, and places go to applicants first come, first served. To ask about joining, email bwiedenheft@gmail.com with the subject "MT Wild Virus Hunt".
Video · 20 minutes
Will Henriques, then a graduate student in the lab, explains the biology of SARS-CoV-2 in plain language. The talk was made for middle and high school students but works for anyone who wants a real science understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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For outreach visits to your classroom, email montana.science.outreach@gmail.com.
Kept as an archive. Several of these trackers are no longer updated.
Event · 2017
The CRISPR 2017 conference was held in Big Sky, Montana. Jennifer Doudna was also honored at MSU with the Stibitz and Wilson Award.
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Short animations of the molecular machines we study, from Cas9 changing shape to anti-CRISPR proteins binding their targets.
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