The Search for New Antibiotics
Location
CoLab, OCB 100
Start Date
28-4-2017 1:00 PM
End Date
28-4-2017 2:45 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
For this project I have been working with several candidates that may be successful in creating a new antibiotic. I have narrowed it down to one candidate and it happens to come from the soil of my own backyard. I have chosen this particular candidate for further research because of its inhibiting characteristics against other organisms. I first noticed the unique characteristics of it when I saw it beginning to grow into a bright orange color. This organism excretes factors that disable pathogens Enterococcus faecalis and Staph epidermis from growing around it. These pathogens were important to screen for inhibition against my candidates because they are safe relatives of the ESKAPE pathogens. The ESKAPE pathogens are the six pathogens that are growing in multidrug resistance and remain a problem in hospitals due to their resistance to antibiotics. Increasing antibiotic resistance makes it harder to treat dangerous infections caused by these pathogens in hospitals, so discovering organisms that could be potential antibiotics is essential. By finding an organism that may prevent the safe relative ESKAPE pathogens from growing, we may be able to discover a new antibiotic.
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The Search for New Antibiotics
CoLab, OCB 100
For this project I have been working with several candidates that may be successful in creating a new antibiotic. I have narrowed it down to one candidate and it happens to come from the soil of my own backyard. I have chosen this particular candidate for further research because of its inhibiting characteristics against other organisms. I first noticed the unique characteristics of it when I saw it beginning to grow into a bright orange color. This organism excretes factors that disable pathogens Enterococcus faecalis and Staph epidermis from growing around it. These pathogens were important to screen for inhibition against my candidates because they are safe relatives of the ESKAPE pathogens. The ESKAPE pathogens are the six pathogens that are growing in multidrug resistance and remain a problem in hospitals due to their resistance to antibiotics. Increasing antibiotic resistance makes it harder to treat dangerous infections caused by these pathogens in hospitals, so discovering organisms that could be potential antibiotics is essential. By finding an organism that may prevent the safe relative ESKAPE pathogens from growing, we may be able to discover a new antibiotic.
Comments
The faculty supervisor on this project is Jamie Cunningham, Biology.