Holmes Community College - Ridgeland hosts Wolbachia Rodeo

February 1, 2013 - The 3rd Mississippi High School Wolbachia Rodeo was hosted by Holmes Community College with coordination between Joe David White (Holmes CC) and Betsy Sullivan (Madison Central High School). Twenty-two students from 3 different high schools participated (Germantown, Madison Central, and St. Andrew's).

 SPECIAL THANKS TO :
*Betsy Sullivan and Joe David White for making this event possible at Holmes!

*Princeton University for providing the necessary biotechnology equipment!
(Ann Sliski, Fred Hughson, and Anna Schmedel - YOU ROCK!)
http://www.hhmi.princeton.edu/

*MBL @ Woods Hole, MA, for providing primers, controls, and the "Wolbachia Project"!
http://discover.mbl.edu/index.html

*Seth Bordenstein's Wolbachia research at Vanderbilt University!
  http://bordensteinlab.vanderbilt.edu/

* UMMC's RBI program for PCR Ready Beads and e-gels!


*Lincoln County's cooperation in outreach for the Biomedical Initative!
*Special Guest Lecture - Dr. Richard deShazo!
*Teachers willing to go the extra mile for their wonderful students!

Schools Participating:

1) GERMANTOWN - Sponsor: Ms. Karen Evans

                                          Team #3

                                          Team # 6

2) MADISON CENTRAL - Sponsor: Dr. Betsy Sullivan

                                          Team #1

                                          Team #5

3) ST. ANDREW'S - Sponsors: Dr. Claudia Bhagat & Sandra Hindsman

                                          Team #2

                                           Team #4

E-Gel Results: Insects tested were fire ants, fleas, and mosquitoes.  Only FLEAS tested positive for Wolbachia!

GEL #1

                                         

GEL #2

GEL #3

Guest Lecture: Dr. Richard deShazo, MD, from UMMC (America's Leading Expert in Allergy & Immunology).
Featured on "The Today Show" April 15, 2009: http://info.umc.edu/news/?n=mcnews&id=3524
MPB's Southern Remedies: http://mpbonline.org/southernremedy



PCR Singers help with "Rolling Out the Amplicon" song @ Holmes. 
YouTube video of song's original debut at UMMC by "The Primers" in April, 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O7kHBo99c4

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Special Thanks to Biomedical Research Assistant:  Ashley Boyd.

Ashley is a junior at Enterprise (The Starship) Attendance Center in Lincoln County and enrolled in Kathy McKone's Biomedical Research class.