By Lucca Muta, Emily Wills Faculty Mentor: Dr. Theresa Grana Abstract SEA-GENES, a Howard Hughes research initiative, is an evolution of the SEA-PHAGES project, which sequenced and annotated the genomes of many bacteriophages. SEA-GENES expands on this project to determine the functions of genes coded by specific phages. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to…