Antibiotic Discovery From Soil
Location
CoLab, COM 100
Start Date
1-5-2025 9:45 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Antibiotic resistance makes treating bacterial illnesses more difficult and poses a growing threat to world health. New medications are desperately needed as germs develop resistance to existing antibiotic. antibiotics have traditionally been found by separating microorganisms from nature sources. such as soil. However, due to increasing resistance, new techniques are required to find effective antibiotics. This project's objective is to use soil microbes to find new antibiotics. in order to accomplish this, we first gathered soil samples and dug up earth from several location. the germs then spread throughout the agar plates using serial dilution. we separated colonies onto a master plate for additional examination after letting the bacterial develop. we tested the bacterial strains for antimicrobial activity against common infection in order to preform antibiotic screening. to pinpoint the exact bacterial generating the antibiotic chemicals, strains with encouraging outcomes were further separated. this study is significant because it explores the possibility of using soil microbes to produce new antibiotics. our goal is to isolate and screen these bacterial in order to find new compounds that could help in the fight against infections that are resistant to antibiotics. The successful strains will be further isolated, their individual chemicals will be identifies, and their potential for new antibiotics will be tested.
Antibiotic Discovery From Soil
CoLab, COM 100
Antibiotic resistance makes treating bacterial illnesses more difficult and poses a growing threat to world health. New medications are desperately needed as germs develop resistance to existing antibiotic. antibiotics have traditionally been found by separating microorganisms from nature sources. such as soil. However, due to increasing resistance, new techniques are required to find effective antibiotics. This project's objective is to use soil microbes to find new antibiotics. in order to accomplish this, we first gathered soil samples and dug up earth from several location. the germs then spread throughout the agar plates using serial dilution. we separated colonies onto a master plate for additional examination after letting the bacterial develop. we tested the bacterial strains for antimicrobial activity against common infection in order to preform antibiotic screening. to pinpoint the exact bacterial generating the antibiotic chemicals, strains with encouraging outcomes were further separated. this study is significant because it explores the possibility of using soil microbes to produce new antibiotics. our goal is to isolate and screen these bacterial in order to find new compounds that could help in the fight against infections that are resistant to antibiotics. The successful strains will be further isolated, their individual chemicals will be identifies, and their potential for new antibiotics will be tested.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Rachael Ott, Biology.