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Location
CoLab
Start Date
3-5-2019 10:30 AM
End Date
3-5-2019 11:45 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
A soil sample was gathered from a basement dig at a residential neighborhood construction site in suburban Kansas City. The soil sample was then serial diluted, and colonies of bacteria were grown and isolated. Colony 3 was the bacteria chosen for further investigation. Through PCR and DNA sequencing of the 16s rRNA gene, it was determined this bacterium was from the Burkholderia genus and the species is yet to be determined. Research has been done to optimize the production of antimicrobial metabolites. This species of Burkholderia has been shown to inhibit many types of bacteria, including the human pathogens, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Further study is planned to isolate and characterize antimicrobial metabolites.
Characterizatioin of the Antimicrobial Activity of a Burkholderia Isolate
CoLab
A soil sample was gathered from a basement dig at a residential neighborhood construction site in suburban Kansas City. The soil sample was then serial diluted, and colonies of bacteria were grown and isolated. Colony 3 was the bacteria chosen for further investigation. Through PCR and DNA sequencing of the 16s rRNA gene, it was determined this bacterium was from the Burkholderia genus and the species is yet to be determined. Research has been done to optimize the production of antimicrobial metabolites. This species of Burkholderia has been shown to inhibit many types of bacteria, including the human pathogens, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Further study is planned to isolate and characterize antimicrobial metabolites.
Comments
The faculty supervisors for this project were Melissa Beaty and Jamie Cunningham, Biology.