Maddie McCarthy has been working for the past year in the lab exploring the presence of antibiotic resistance in microbes found in environmental samples. This week she presented her work finding widespread antibiotic resistance in a Fairbanks permafrost thaw gradient.
She used a combination of techniques including traditional culturing methods and antibiotic screening as well as
nanopore sequencing to explore the resistome. She has just started comparing her sequencing data with the
Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance database.
Maddie's work was supported by
Alaska BLaST who is funded by the National Institute Of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers UL1GM118991, TL4GM118992, or RL5GM118990.