Small World Initiative and the Scientific Method
Location
CoLab, OCB 100
Start Date
27-4-2018 1:30 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
The problem of antibiotic resistance is growing and the pharmaceutical industry is not responding on a scale that matches the scale of the rising problem. The Small World Initiative is stepping up into the space not filled by the drug companies and meeting the issue of antibiotic resistant superbugs. Colleges and universities are crowdsourcing data of bacteria found in dirt and testing it against tester strains of relatives of the antibiotic resistant microbes. My part in this research has included testing bacterial colonies found from dirt in my backyard against six different tester relatives and not finding positive results. The lesson I have learned thus far is that of the scientific process- try, try again.
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Small World Initiative and the Scientific Method
CoLab, OCB 100
The problem of antibiotic resistance is growing and the pharmaceutical industry is not responding on a scale that matches the scale of the rising problem. The Small World Initiative is stepping up into the space not filled by the drug companies and meeting the issue of antibiotic resistant superbugs. Colleges and universities are crowdsourcing data of bacteria found in dirt and testing it against tester strains of relatives of the antibiotic resistant microbes. My part in this research has included testing bacterial colonies found from dirt in my backyard against six different tester relatives and not finding positive results. The lesson I have learned thus far is that of the scientific process- try, try again.
Comments
The faculty supervisor for this project was Jon Kniss, Biology.