Presentation Year

2020

Depreciated Participant

Maxwell PlunkettChemistryUndergraduate Student

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

Myxobacteria are a large family of bacteria, of which some have proven to contain antibacterial and antineoplasticity secondary metabolites. These bioactive secondary metabolites have been the basis for new analog drugs approved by the FDA in the treatment of different cancers. This research focuses on finding and isolating myxobacteria strains from local soil samples, fractionating these isolated samples, then determining structure and bioactivity through Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and bio-assays, respectively. This is to gain a better understanding of the conditions that spawn wild myxobacteria colonies and any possibly new bio-active compounds.

Permission to Publish Work

Yes

Node ID

860

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