Growing the Next Antibiotic
Location
CoLab, COM 123
Start Date
30-4-2026 8:15 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
The rising number of antibiotic resistant strains of microbes continues to turn simple infections into life threatening conditions. After isolating a promising candidate from a soil sample through dilution, it was discovered that it produced antibiotics that were strongly effective against the safe ESKAPE relative of Staphylococcus epidermidis. This new microbe was then Gram-stained, endospore-stained, and acid-fast stained, and was found to be a Gram-positive microbe that did not produce spores or have a mycolic acid layer of its outer membrane. This discovery of an antibiotic producing microbe marks the first step in diversifying the types of antibiotics used in clinical settings. Diversifying the antibiotic catalogue helps keep infections non-lethal and simple to treat.
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Growing the Next Antibiotic
CoLab, COM 123
The rising number of antibiotic resistant strains of microbes continues to turn simple infections into life threatening conditions. After isolating a promising candidate from a soil sample through dilution, it was discovered that it produced antibiotics that were strongly effective against the safe ESKAPE relative of Staphylococcus epidermidis. This new microbe was then Gram-stained, endospore-stained, and acid-fast stained, and was found to be a Gram-positive microbe that did not produce spores or have a mycolic acid layer of its outer membrane. This discovery of an antibiotic producing microbe marks the first step in diversifying the types of antibiotics used in clinical settings. Diversifying the antibiotic catalogue helps keep infections non-lethal and simple to treat.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Eulandria Biddle.