Antibiotic Resistant Research
Location
CoLab, OCB 100
Start Date
28-4-2017 1:00 PM
End Date
28-4-2017 2:45 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Antibiotic resistance is becoming a huge problem in the world today, and I hope that I can find a new bacteria that can help fight something that is resistant to all drugs. I am working on finding at least one potential candidate if not more that can fight antibiotic resistant diseases from a soil sample brought in a random sample of soil from a residential backyard in Johnson County. We first put our samples on agar media, and cultured the bacteria that had inhibition. I then proceeded to take the 15 bacteria that showed inhibition, and patch plated those. Next, I used the cavalier method to put them against the 5 ESKAPE pathogens, which are the most common antibiotic resistant strands. I found 1 bacteria that inhibited Staphylococcus aureus, and I streak platted it to get a pure culture. Hopefully the DNA structure, and everything we get back from Yale University will show something new, and it will be able to kill off S. aureus.
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Antibiotic Resistant Research
CoLab, OCB 100
Antibiotic resistance is becoming a huge problem in the world today, and I hope that I can find a new bacteria that can help fight something that is resistant to all drugs. I am working on finding at least one potential candidate if not more that can fight antibiotic resistant diseases from a soil sample brought in a random sample of soil from a residential backyard in Johnson County. We first put our samples on agar media, and cultured the bacteria that had inhibition. I then proceeded to take the 15 bacteria that showed inhibition, and patch plated those. Next, I used the cavalier method to put them against the 5 ESKAPE pathogens, which are the most common antibiotic resistant strands. I found 1 bacteria that inhibited Staphylococcus aureus, and I streak platted it to get a pure culture. Hopefully the DNA structure, and everything we get back from Yale University will show something new, and it will be able to kill off S. aureus.
Comments
The faculty supervisor on this project is Heather Seitz, Biology.