Lab Research Project
Location
CoLab, OCB 100
Start Date
27-4-2018 12:00 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
The majority of antibiotics in commercial and clinical use today are derived from soil bacteria. The pace of antibiotic discovery is not keeping up with the evolution of resistance in microbes so a crisis is brewing in the world. I am doing a semester long research project looking for antibiotic producing bacteria and discovering an inhibitory compound in my choice of soil so that I can help the emerging crisis. To begin this research, I used the soil dilution process to look for potential candidates. After I found candidates, I went through the antibiotic screening process to test the colonies against gram positive/negative bacteria. Metabolic tests as well as sequencing will identify the antibiotic producing organism being pursued. The overall goal of this project and semester in lab is to discover an antibiotic that inhibits the growth of one of the six ESKAPE pathogens.
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Lab Research Project
CoLab, OCB 100
The majority of antibiotics in commercial and clinical use today are derived from soil bacteria. The pace of antibiotic discovery is not keeping up with the evolution of resistance in microbes so a crisis is brewing in the world. I am doing a semester long research project looking for antibiotic producing bacteria and discovering an inhibitory compound in my choice of soil so that I can help the emerging crisis. To begin this research, I used the soil dilution process to look for potential candidates. After I found candidates, I went through the antibiotic screening process to test the colonies against gram positive/negative bacteria. Metabolic tests as well as sequencing will identify the antibiotic producing organism being pursued. The overall goal of this project and semester in lab is to discover an antibiotic that inhibits the growth of one of the six ESKAPE pathogens.
Comments
The faculty supervisor for this project was Melissa Beaty, Biology.