Start Date
27-4-2023 9:00 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Antibiotic resistance has become a very big issue in the medical field over the last several years. With the development of resistance to many of our known antibiotics, bacterial infections are getting harder to treat. Over the course of the semester, we took on the challenge of discovering new candidates with the ability to produce growth inhibition to surrounding bacteria and then tried to identify what type of bacteria our candidates were. By doing so we hoped to help create new solutions for the growing problems of antibiotic resistance. Most of the antibiotics used today are products from soil samples that have been taken and researched further. I participated in trying to find a solution by taking a soil sample of my own, and by testing it through serial dilution and challenge plates, I hoped to find a good candidate worth exploring further throughout the semester. I discovered a candidate that I named Anakin Skywalker, who showed promising results of a possible future antibiotic breakthrough.
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A New Hope for Antibiotics; Discovering Anakin Skywalker
Antibiotic resistance has become a very big issue in the medical field over the last several years. With the development of resistance to many of our known antibiotics, bacterial infections are getting harder to treat. Over the course of the semester, we took on the challenge of discovering new candidates with the ability to produce growth inhibition to surrounding bacteria and then tried to identify what type of bacteria our candidates were. By doing so we hoped to help create new solutions for the growing problems of antibiotic resistance. Most of the antibiotics used today are products from soil samples that have been taken and researched further. I participated in trying to find a solution by taking a soil sample of my own, and by testing it through serial dilution and challenge plates, I hoped to find a good candidate worth exploring further throughout the semester. I discovered a candidate that I named Anakin Skywalker, who showed promising results of a possible future antibiotic breakthrough.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Angela Consani, Biology.