Start Date
27-4-2023 10:30 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
One of the many ways microbiologists attempt to find new antibiotics is by using bacteria found in soil. This is an excellent resource because of the abundance and diversity of bacteria colonies that reside in it. Soil microbes have yielded the majority of the antibiotics we use to treat infection today. (Manyi-Loh, 2018) Many of these organisms found is soil have the ability to construct antibiotic composites. I took a soil sample and performed a serial dilution to obtain a countable number of bacteria to determine if any would be candidates for resistance to pathogen relatives. Out of my thousands of bacteria collected, four initially appeared to be potential candidates for antibiotic production. After further testing, one clear candidate stuck out to me. This candidate, named EK1, was able to inhibit the growth of multiple pathogen relatives such as Mycobacterium smegmatis and Escherichia coli. This indicates that my bacteria EK1 has the potential for antibiotic production.
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EK1 Candidate
One of the many ways microbiologists attempt to find new antibiotics is by using bacteria found in soil. This is an excellent resource because of the abundance and diversity of bacteria colonies that reside in it. Soil microbes have yielded the majority of the antibiotics we use to treat infection today. (Manyi-Loh, 2018) Many of these organisms found is soil have the ability to construct antibiotic composites. I took a soil sample and performed a serial dilution to obtain a countable number of bacteria to determine if any would be candidates for resistance to pathogen relatives. Out of my thousands of bacteria collected, four initially appeared to be potential candidates for antibiotic production. After further testing, one clear candidate stuck out to me. This candidate, named EK1, was able to inhibit the growth of multiple pathogen relatives such as Mycobacterium smegmatis and Escherichia coli. This indicates that my bacteria EK1 has the potential for antibiotic production.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Angela Consani, Biology.