Geepers Creepers!

In my research I started off by picking an amazing spot to collect my soil sample…My back yard. The goal was to get around 2 inches in the ground and observe the type of soil I collected. With this sample J was able to run some tests through aseptic technique, serial dilution, antibiotic screening, and many many swabs samples later. The purpose of my research was to try and find safe ESKAPE relatives in the natural world to prove how antibiotics are all around us and we don’t even realize it. This is very important for scientists who are working with the foreign unsafe relatives that tend to get people very sick each year so finding proper antibiotic properties in natural habitats can help create many medicines for future use. During my long research period I was able to find multiple candidates that have these antibiotic properties against certain ESKAPE relatives, but I was able to find one that had a zone of inhibition in 4 out of 6 ESKAPE relatives!