Location
OCB 100
Start Date
28-4-2022 10:30 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Antibiotics are used to successfully treat many different diseases and illnesses caused by bacteria. Over time, certain bacteria become antibiotic-resistant. This makes the antibiotics that were once used to kill these harmful bacteria, not effective anymore. With antibiotic resistance becoming a widespread problem, the discovery of new antibiotic compounds is crucial. Many of the very effective antibiotics used in clinical practice today were found from the soil. Another professor collected a soil sample from a treed area around a pond, which I further studied in hopes of finding a new antibiotic-producing organism. I discovered an organism from this soil sample that produced a substantial amount of inhibitory substances against many of the different ESKAPE pathogen relatives. With these relatives being inhibited, it suggests a path towards inhibiting several ESKAPE pathogens that are responsible for antibiotic-resistant infections. This research is very important to try to find new antibiotics that can replace the ones that are no longer effective.
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Searching for Antibiotic Producing Microorganisms from the Soil
OCB 100
Antibiotics are used to successfully treat many different diseases and illnesses caused by bacteria. Over time, certain bacteria become antibiotic-resistant. This makes the antibiotics that were once used to kill these harmful bacteria, not effective anymore. With antibiotic resistance becoming a widespread problem, the discovery of new antibiotic compounds is crucial. Many of the very effective antibiotics used in clinical practice today were found from the soil. Another professor collected a soil sample from a treed area around a pond, which I further studied in hopes of finding a new antibiotic-producing organism. I discovered an organism from this soil sample that produced a substantial amount of inhibitory substances against many of the different ESKAPE pathogen relatives. With these relatives being inhibited, it suggests a path towards inhibiting several ESKAPE pathogens that are responsible for antibiotic-resistant infections. This research is very important to try to find new antibiotics that can replace the ones that are no longer effective.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Jamie Cunningham, Biology .