Research Symposium

BIO

I am a transfer student from 5 hours south of Tallahassee, from a small town called Bradenton. I am a Biochemistry major and am pre-veterinary student hoping to pursue a DVM-PhD degree in Veterinary Medicine. I am interested in biomedical/veterinary research intended to help humans and animals and contribute to the One-Health approach to the scientific community - where the environment, human beings, and animals are all equal contributors to the health of one another.

Novel Antibiotic-Resistant Genes in Goose Microbiota

Abstract

Along with the ever-expanding world that we live in, antibiotic-resistance grows and adapts with us. Although the discovery of antibiotic resistance is nothing new, the discovery and horizontally-transmitted resistance genes capable of conferring resistance against last-resort antibiotics, namely colistin, has been a recent one in the past decade. Discovery of novel resistance genes and mechanisms is crucial in measuring the degree of dissemination throughout the international community to attempt to curb this spread.

Keywords: Antibiotic, Resistance, E.coli