Finding Potential Antibiotics
Location
CoLab
Start Date
3-5-2019 12:00 PM
End Date
3-3-2019 1:15 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
In this experiment, I took a sample of dirt from a garden in my front yard to sample microbes in the soil. The goal of this experiment was to find microbe candidates that could be a potential antibiotic. This experiment consisted of diluting the soil microbes into a petri dish and allowing several days for the microbes to grow. After this process, I picked potential candidates, and grew them on a separate petri dish. I tested these candidates using the ESKAPE pathogens and found that two candidates showed zones of inhibition for A. baylyi. To further my research on these candidates, I will test the microbes by using Gram-staining, spore-staining and acid-fast staining techniques.
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Finding Potential Antibiotics
CoLab
In this experiment, I took a sample of dirt from a garden in my front yard to sample microbes in the soil. The goal of this experiment was to find microbe candidates that could be a potential antibiotic. This experiment consisted of diluting the soil microbes into a petri dish and allowing several days for the microbes to grow. After this process, I picked potential candidates, and grew them on a separate petri dish. I tested these candidates using the ESKAPE pathogens and found that two candidates showed zones of inhibition for A. baylyi. To further my research on these candidates, I will test the microbes by using Gram-staining, spore-staining and acid-fast staining techniques.
Comments
The faculty supervisor for this project was Jamie Cunningham, Biology.