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Title

Unknown Soil Isolates from Urban Park as Antibiotic Producers

Author(s)

Sydney Parra, Augustana College, Rock Island IllinoisFollow
Dr. Lori Scott, Augustana College, Rock Island IllinoisFollow

Course

BIOL-375-01

Document Type

Poster

Streaming Media

Publication Date

Winter 1-28-2020

Disciplines

Biology

Description, Abstract, or Artist's Statement

Antibiotics play an important role in combating bacterial infections. Recently, antibiotic resistance has increased which has pushed scientist to find new and effective antibiotic drugs. Students conducted research on potential antibiotic producers from soil samples in the Quad Cities region. The purpose of the study was to find novel antibiotic producers from bacteria in soil and test soil isolates against two strains of bacteria, B. subtilis and E. coli. Two unknown soil isolate strains were found to be potential antibiotic producers against B. subtilis. Future studies are needed to conduct gene sequencing on these two unknown soil isolates.This project is a collaboration with the Tiny Earth Project Initiative (TEPI), which is a global network of educators and students focused on student sourcing antibiotic discovery from soil.

Augustana Digital Commons Citation

Parra, Sydney and Scott, Dr. Lori. "Unknown Soil Isolates from Urban Park as Antibiotic Producers" (2020). Identifying and Characterizing Novel Antibiotic Producing Microbes From the Soil.
https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/biolmicro/2

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