Location
CoLab, OCB 100
Start Date
25-4-2024 10:30 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Today, we use antibiotics to treat infections caused by bacteria. Antibiotics have become a main staple in the medical industry when used to treat infections that potentially lead to death and disease. The discovery of antibiotics has helped us greatly cure infectious diseases worldwide. The problem today is antibiotic resistance. That is when bacteria slowly evolve to create a resistance to antibiotics, making the antibiotic not effective anymore. This is why we need to keep discovering antibiotics to keep up with the bacteria that have resistance. Today we use samples of dirt to find bacteria that produce chemicals we can use as antibiotics. This is the serial dilution technique. In this project, I used the same technique to see if I found any microbes that had any inhibition to certain bacteria taken from my dirt sample. The microbe I discovered inhibits a handful of bacteria. I named my microbe #3 as it was the 3rd microbe I pulled from my dirt sample. I discovered that #3 did have good inhibition with Mycobacterium smegmantis, Enterobacter aerogenes, and Staphylococcus epidermidis just to name a few. In this presentation, I will explain my work and discovery of the serial dilution technique that I have been working on this semester.
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What is the Source: Finding Antibiotics
CoLab, OCB 100
Today, we use antibiotics to treat infections caused by bacteria. Antibiotics have become a main staple in the medical industry when used to treat infections that potentially lead to death and disease. The discovery of antibiotics has helped us greatly cure infectious diseases worldwide. The problem today is antibiotic resistance. That is when bacteria slowly evolve to create a resistance to antibiotics, making the antibiotic not effective anymore. This is why we need to keep discovering antibiotics to keep up with the bacteria that have resistance. Today we use samples of dirt to find bacteria that produce chemicals we can use as antibiotics. This is the serial dilution technique. In this project, I used the same technique to see if I found any microbes that had any inhibition to certain bacteria taken from my dirt sample. The microbe I discovered inhibits a handful of bacteria. I named my microbe #3 as it was the 3rd microbe I pulled from my dirt sample. I discovered that #3 did have good inhibition with Mycobacterium smegmantis, Enterobacter aerogenes, and Staphylococcus epidermidis just to name a few. In this presentation, I will explain my work and discovery of the serial dilution technique that I have been working on this semester.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Jaime Cunningham, Biology.