Start Date
27-4-2023 12:00 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
There is currently a diminishing supply of effective antibiotics, which is a threat to global health as many infectious diseases can only be treated with antibiotics. Many of the antibiotics today were discovered by looking at the microorganisms in the soil. In this project we want to identify a microbe that has inhibitory properties and see what other organisms are related to it. To do this we used serial dilution to separate the microbes from the soil, challenged candidates produced from the sample for inhibitory properties, performed numerous staining procedures to help try to identify the microbe under a microscope, and performed PCR to try to identify how the candidate relates to known microbes. So far, we have found that the candidate is not spore forming, acid fast, and is bacillus shaped. The candidate has also been found to produce antibiotic properties against Staphylococcus epidermidis, Escherichia coli, Acinetobacter baylyi, Pseudomonas putida, and Enterobacter aerogenes.
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The Search for Antibiotics
There is currently a diminishing supply of effective antibiotics, which is a threat to global health as many infectious diseases can only be treated with antibiotics. Many of the antibiotics today were discovered by looking at the microorganisms in the soil. In this project we want to identify a microbe that has inhibitory properties and see what other organisms are related to it. To do this we used serial dilution to separate the microbes from the soil, challenged candidates produced from the sample for inhibitory properties, performed numerous staining procedures to help try to identify the microbe under a microscope, and performed PCR to try to identify how the candidate relates to known microbes. So far, we have found that the candidate is not spore forming, acid fast, and is bacillus shaped. The candidate has also been found to produce antibiotic properties against Staphylococcus epidermidis, Escherichia coli, Acinetobacter baylyi, Pseudomonas putida, and Enterobacter aerogenes.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Angela Consani, Biology.