Morgan Lindback received $10,000 from ITiMS to conduct this project.
Co-mentors: Melissa Duhaime and Luis Zaman
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Infect host with two phage.
Quantify "winner" of co-infection.
Purify phage and host.
Elemental analysis of phage and host.
Calculate thermodynamics of phage and host based on elemental composition.
Predict binding constants.
Blue phage binds faster BUT orange phage replicates faster (or vice versa).
Orange and blue phage bind and replicate at similar rates.
Blue phage binds faster AND blue phage replicates faster.
Blue phage binds faster and blue and orange phage replicates at similar rates.
Blue phage binds faster and blue phage replicates much faster.