11:00     Introduction to BruceB and Et2Brutus

Switu Patel

Characterization of gene familes and genome features from VCU’s collection of mycobacteriophages

Repressor proteins
Hasan Alkhairo & Dominique Grim

Repressor binding sites
Saman Raftari

Capsid protein
Winston Sanders

Recombination in phages
Alex Ii & Catherine Halpern

DD-carboxypeptidase is not b-lactamase
Shantel Brown & Tori Diesel

11:20     Lysogeny and the prophage

How to find attP and attB sites using bioinformatics
Yordanos Teferra

The Search for Prophage DNA in Mycobacteria
Bobby Chaggar

11:28     The wonderful world of repressors

Conserved domains of repressor proteins in mycobacteriophages
Supriya Pokhrel

CI repressor protein in Lactoccal phage TP901 and like proteins
Firras Garada

Locating the repressor binding sites in the bacteriophages
Sonia Sharma

Indirect readout steps of phage repressor-operator complexes
Kristen Wade

Identifying incomplete repressors and characteristics in phages
Mandi Feinberg

Phage cI repressors: The effects on transcriptional/translational direction operators
Trevor Faske

11:51     Mobile elements

Diversity-generating reverse transcriptase
Abdallah Abdel Maksoud

Identifying new motifs in class 3 inteins
Kavya Kommaraju

Presence of mobile elements within mycobacteriophages
Farah Dahman

12:03     Phage exclusion and restriction resistance in mycobactiophages

Search for superinfection exclusion proteins in mycobacteriophages
Keith Herbert

The case of the missing palindromes
Tayab Waseem

12:11     Phage lysis proteins

Comparative analysis of TM domain motifs of pinholin
Sue Parks

Comparative analysis of lysis proteins, Rz/Rz1
Lawangin Khan

12:19     Tape measure proteins within mycobacterium phages

Localizing TM4 tmp motif 3 in mycobacteriophage proteins
Kathy Figueroa

Tandem repeats and motifs of the tape measure protein within mycobacterium phages
Jonathan Kindberg