Microbiology students join in national hunt for future antibiotics

December 4, 2014
News

Microbiology 302L students taught by Claudia Lemper were part of a world-wide crowdsourcing project coordinated by Yale University.  The students searched the soil from the ISU campus for antimicrobial producing organisms and identified them using microbiological tests and 16s rRNA sequencing.  The antimicrobial compounds were tested to determine which pathogenic organisms they might be effective agains.

To read more about the project please go to Small World Initiative.

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