Start Date
27-4-2023 12:00 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Certain antibiotics have been derived from soil samples from the simplest places. With appropriate experimenting, microbiologists have been able to discover new antibiotics. In my experiment, I extracted a soil sample from my front yard in hopes to find the presence of an antibiotic. There are several steps in this specific kind of experiment but identifying a potential candidate is the first crucial step. Identification involved observing colonies that displayed inhibition on challenge plates. In this case, challenge plates were a test between my candidates from serial dilution plates versus the six safe pathogenic relatives. Through trial and error, my only candidate, named Bananas, has shown inhibition with almost every safe relative. These positive results got me through my first big step, next is identifying what kind of species Bananas belongs to.
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Apples, Bananas, and Cantaloupe.
Certain antibiotics have been derived from soil samples from the simplest places. With appropriate experimenting, microbiologists have been able to discover new antibiotics. In my experiment, I extracted a soil sample from my front yard in hopes to find the presence of an antibiotic. There are several steps in this specific kind of experiment but identifying a potential candidate is the first crucial step. Identification involved observing colonies that displayed inhibition on challenge plates. In this case, challenge plates were a test between my candidates from serial dilution plates versus the six safe pathogenic relatives. Through trial and error, my only candidate, named Bananas, has shown inhibition with almost every safe relative. These positive results got me through my first big step, next is identifying what kind of species Bananas belongs to.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Angela Consani, Biology.