The Marvelous World of Antibiotics
Location
CoLab, COM 159
Start Date
30-4-2026 9:30 AM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Antibiotics are the solution to a lot of common ailments that humans experience over their lifetime. You may think the antibiotics you take will be the answer forever to fix the problem, but you would be wrong. Every time you use the same antibiotic it becomes less and less effective. The more advanced bacteria find ways to be resistant to the antibiotics we develop. Over the past semester, I have worked with Tiny Earth to look at bacteria found in a soil sample. The favored outcome is to find a species of bacteria that has the ability to stop the safe relatives of common antibiotic resistant bacteria. The hope is that if my found bacteria can inhibit the safe version of the illness causing strain, then it can also stop the deadly relative from growing. During this semester I have isolated a species of bacteria from a soil sample collected from my backyard. This species has proven to stop safe relatives of harmful bacteria from growing. After many rounds of testing (And a lot of patience), I have found a bacteria that was able to inhibit the growth of six out of eight of the provided tester strains. I have named the strain Shuri and believe it has the potential to develop antibiotics to help future antibiotic research. Or, it just looks good on paper, but that is what I am here to discover.
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The Marvelous World of Antibiotics
CoLab, COM 159
Antibiotics are the solution to a lot of common ailments that humans experience over their lifetime. You may think the antibiotics you take will be the answer forever to fix the problem, but you would be wrong. Every time you use the same antibiotic it becomes less and less effective. The more advanced bacteria find ways to be resistant to the antibiotics we develop. Over the past semester, I have worked with Tiny Earth to look at bacteria found in a soil sample. The favored outcome is to find a species of bacteria that has the ability to stop the safe relatives of common antibiotic resistant bacteria. The hope is that if my found bacteria can inhibit the safe version of the illness causing strain, then it can also stop the deadly relative from growing. During this semester I have isolated a species of bacteria from a soil sample collected from my backyard. This species has proven to stop safe relatives of harmful bacteria from growing. After many rounds of testing (And a lot of patience), I have found a bacteria that was able to inhibit the growth of six out of eight of the provided tester strains. I have named the strain Shuri and believe it has the potential to develop antibiotics to help future antibiotic research. Or, it just looks good on paper, but that is what I am here to discover.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Jamie Cunningham.