Location
CoLab, OCB 100
Start Date
25-4-2024 10:30 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Over the years, antibiotics have helped the human population to kill harmful bacteria. This allowed the population to live longer and healthier lives and worry less about getting sick. However, as antibiotics were used more, the bacterial populations developed a resistance to them, which started the war of antibiotic resistance. Throughout this course, microbiology students took on the obstacle to see if we could find microbes in our environment that could inhibit bacterial growth. We started by going to the main source where antibiotics come from. The soil. I took soil from my front yard and did several tests through serial dilution, and screening plates, in hopes of finding a candidate that could inhibit bacterial growth. I found a candidate that inhibited many tester strains of bacteria. This microbe was given the name MRPAB5. MRPAB5 showed promising results in fighting some of the ESKAPE pathogens, which is a step forward in helping fight against antibiotic resistance.
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Antibiotic Properties of Microorganism MRPAB5
CoLab, OCB 100
Over the years, antibiotics have helped the human population to kill harmful bacteria. This allowed the population to live longer and healthier lives and worry less about getting sick. However, as antibiotics were used more, the bacterial populations developed a resistance to them, which started the war of antibiotic resistance. Throughout this course, microbiology students took on the obstacle to see if we could find microbes in our environment that could inhibit bacterial growth. We started by going to the main source where antibiotics come from. The soil. I took soil from my front yard and did several tests through serial dilution, and screening plates, in hopes of finding a candidate that could inhibit bacterial growth. I found a candidate that inhibited many tester strains of bacteria. This microbe was given the name MRPAB5. MRPAB5 showed promising results in fighting some of the ESKAPE pathogens, which is a step forward in helping fight against antibiotic resistance.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Jaime Cunningham, Biology.