Antibiotic Production from Local Bacteria
Location
CoLab, COM 332
Start Date
30-4-2026 2:30 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
The study of microbiology has allowed for medical innovations, treatments and saved lives. The purpose of this project is to identify microbes that produce antibiotics amongst major pathogenic bacteria, so that those microbes can be used to produce antibiotics on a larger scale. It’s important to get new antibiotics from different microbes since we have used commonly known antibiotics for so long that many pathogenic strains have developed resistance towards many antibiotics on the market. Multiple stains of bacteria have been sampled from a soil sample collected in Missouri. A microbe called “Candidate 5” nicknamed “A.W.Y.M.M.” has shown promising results amongst the top six most resistant pathogenic bacteria.
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Antibiotic Production from Local Bacteria
CoLab, COM 332
The study of microbiology has allowed for medical innovations, treatments and saved lives. The purpose of this project is to identify microbes that produce antibiotics amongst major pathogenic bacteria, so that those microbes can be used to produce antibiotics on a larger scale. It’s important to get new antibiotics from different microbes since we have used commonly known antibiotics for so long that many pathogenic strains have developed resistance towards many antibiotics on the market. Multiple stains of bacteria have been sampled from a soil sample collected in Missouri. A microbe called “Candidate 5” nicknamed “A.W.Y.M.M.” has shown promising results amongst the top six most resistant pathogenic bacteria.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Kara Weigand.