Tiny Earth

The Tiny Earth Project is a company that’s goal is to engage students in research to confront the worlds growing problem of antibiotic resistance. We have been learning about this in our class at Johnson County Community College. Students are learning how to deal with this growing problem of ESKAPE pathogens that are antibiotic resistant. The poster will focus's on the candidate I have been researching this semester and spotting the isolated colonies within the candidate. The problem of antibiotic resistance exists because people are overusing antibiotics on a mass level causing higher immunity leading to more deadly pathogens. The research has been addressed by putting the candidate through several tests and trials to try and determine what it is resistant towards and use that candidate against ESKAPE pathogens. From the soil collected it was found to contain a type of gram-negative bacteria in an in vitro environment. That candidate was able to inhibit E. Coli, E. Aerogenes, and A. Bayli. This means it could be a possible candidate to use against ESKAPE pathogens and there could be potentially more candidates waiting to be found.