Session 1
Look to the soil around us for antibiotic producing microbes. Get your hands dirty with sterile technique and growth inhibition to understand where our most important medicines come from. Come learn basics of microbiology with an emphasis on finding antibiotic producing bacteria.
Students enrolled in this program will understand where antibiotics come from, discover the meaning of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, conceptualize the idea of a bacterial planet, appreciate the difference between solid and liquid culture and sequence bacteria.
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry
PhD Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois-Chicago, 2015
BS Biochemistry, Florida State University, 2010
Dr. Carlson is trained in pharmacognosy which is the pursuit of new drugs from natural sources. Her research looks for new drug leads from microbes, algae, and cyanobacteria.
In the Carlson laboratory, Dr. Carlson utilizes natural products chemistry and interdisciplinary biology (microbiology, molecular, and chemical ecology), to seek new bioactive molecules from Gram-positive bacteria derived from aquatic sediments, algae, cyanobacteria, and sponges.
