Discovery of Potential Antibiotic Bacteria
Location
CoLab, OCB 100
Start Date
25-4-2024 1:30 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Despite antibiotics being absolutely necessary for human and animal health, there is an ongoing crisis with a lack of discovery of new medications. Along with this crisis, many microbes are becoming resistant to currently known antibiotics. The hope for this experiment was to discover new antibiotics that the microbes will not have any resistance to. This was done through a soil sample in Kansas near Clinton Lake. In this experiment, the sample was diluted and screened for antibiotic properties. There were a few likely candidates for antibiotic properties that may be useful for future experiments.
Discovery of Potential Antibiotic Bacteria
CoLab, OCB 100
Despite antibiotics being absolutely necessary for human and animal health, there is an ongoing crisis with a lack of discovery of new medications. Along with this crisis, many microbes are becoming resistant to currently known antibiotics. The hope for this experiment was to discover new antibiotics that the microbes will not have any resistance to. This was done through a soil sample in Kansas near Clinton Lake. In this experiment, the sample was diluted and screened for antibiotic properties. There were a few likely candidates for antibiotic properties that may be useful for future experiments.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Melissa Beaty, Biology.