Potentially Antibiotic Soil Bacteria
Location
CoLab, OCB 100
Start Date
27-4-2018 9:00 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Due to the overuse of antibiotics, resistant bacteria have become an increasingly difficult obstacle in successfully treating patients. It has become progressively problematic, in that drug companies do not see it as profitable to manufacture new antibiotics because resistant strains of bacteria are becoming more and more prevalent. The focus of my research this semester has centered around discovering a bacterium with antibiotic potential. Through obtaining a soil sample, creating a serial dilution and generating subcultures it is my goal to aid in the discovery of a new antibiotic with the potential to combat bacterial antibiotic resistance. Metabolic studies and sequencing will be used to identify and confirm an isolated organism.
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Potentially Antibiotic Soil Bacteria
CoLab, OCB 100
Due to the overuse of antibiotics, resistant bacteria have become an increasingly difficult obstacle in successfully treating patients. It has become progressively problematic, in that drug companies do not see it as profitable to manufacture new antibiotics because resistant strains of bacteria are becoming more and more prevalent. The focus of my research this semester has centered around discovering a bacterium with antibiotic potential. Through obtaining a soil sample, creating a serial dilution and generating subcultures it is my goal to aid in the discovery of a new antibiotic with the potential to combat bacterial antibiotic resistance. Metabolic studies and sequencing will be used to identify and confirm an isolated organism.
Comments
The faculty supervisor for this project was Melissa Beaty, Biology.