Cultivating Microbes
Location
CoLab, OCB 100
Start Date
27-4-2018 9:00 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
The purpose of this experiment is to sample microbes that have been found in dirt and cultivated them in a lab setting. Using a series of dilutions, I reduced the overwhelming number of microbes collected from the dirt sample into a more practical population and began cultivating them on a petri dish. Once the microbes had been given several days to develop I observed unique growth patterns on the plate and hypothesized which colonies were most likely to be producing an antibiotic compound. Colonies that were isolated from the mass of other bacteria on the plate suggested competitive mechanisms in the microbe, this is important to our experiment because it insinuates an inhibitive characteristic that may be of use in new antibiotics. Further testing is than conducted among strains of microbes that behave similarly to bacteria that are particularly harmful to us in hopes of discovering a new way to combat antibiotic-resistant viruses.
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Cultivating Microbes
CoLab, OCB 100
The purpose of this experiment is to sample microbes that have been found in dirt and cultivated them in a lab setting. Using a series of dilutions, I reduced the overwhelming number of microbes collected from the dirt sample into a more practical population and began cultivating them on a petri dish. Once the microbes had been given several days to develop I observed unique growth patterns on the plate and hypothesized which colonies were most likely to be producing an antibiotic compound. Colonies that were isolated from the mass of other bacteria on the plate suggested competitive mechanisms in the microbe, this is important to our experiment because it insinuates an inhibitive characteristic that may be of use in new antibiotics. Further testing is than conducted among strains of microbes that behave similarly to bacteria that are particularly harmful to us in hopes of discovering a new way to combat antibiotic-resistant viruses.
Comments
The faculty supervisor for this project was Jamie Cunningham, Biology.