TRIP INITIATIVE
  • Home
    • About Us
    • Donate
    • FAQs - Summer TRIP
    • Contact
  • Blog
  • ALUMNI GALLERY
    • Ursinus 2015
    • Temple 2015
    • WTHS 2016
    • Temple 2016
    • WTHS 2017
    • Temple 2017
    • WTHS 2018
    • Temple 2018
    • WTHS 2019
    • Temple 2019
    • WTHS 2020
    • WTHS 2021
    • Temple 2021
    • WTHS 2022
    • Temple 2022
    • WTHS 2023
    • WTHS 2024
    • WTHS 2025
  • WTHS'25 Symposium
    • WTHS'25 Symposium Schedule >
      • Session A Schedule
      • Session B Schedule
  • Donate

Regular updates from students in TRIP

Impact of Antibiotics on Fruit Flies by Ishani Ranjan

10/24/2018

0 Comments

 
Hey everyone! As we started to learn more about TRIP, fruit flies, and how to test things out, we have finally started to gear towards working on our Independent Projects. The last few weeks have been so fun and interesting, but it is truly exciting to start with our own individual projects. Essentially, we are all conducting experiments that either mean something to us, we have an interest in, and want to see what we can potentially learn. For these reasons, I chose to use different Antibiotics on fruit flies in order to see how they different affect female fertility and microbiome diversity.
Picture
My interest in antibiotics was sparked by an infection I had almost two years ago, which was when I learnt my body is resistant to a certain antibiotic. After this, I started a twitter page and blog called Fight Superbugs to raise awareness about antibiotic resistance. I also wrote a children's’ book--Superbugs vs Wonder Drugs: The Epic Battle--about the use of antibiotics. For all these reasons, I’ve been so excited to test antibiotics on fruit flies.

In my independent project, I chose to look at microbiome diversity due to the fact that humans with more diverse gut bacteria are less prone to antibiotic resistance. I believe if I analyze the gut bacteria I get to see, I might be able to conclude some interesting things. Additionally, I was reading an article which discussed how fertility could be negatively impacted from antibiotics, leading me to conduct the female fertility assay on my flies. While choosing which antibiotics I want to use, I chose three antibiotics that are commonly used for various infections. Therefore, I chose Pen/Strep, Bactrim, and Cipro. All three fall into a different category of antibiotics, which leads me to believe they can have different impacts on the human body.

Picture
I can’t wait to continue with my Independent Project, along with seeing what everyone else does with their project. TRIP is truly an amazing experience that I can’t wait to share with my friends and family!​
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    August 2017
    July 2017

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All
    Blog 1: Introductions!
    Blog 2: Planning An Independent Project
    Blog 3: Reflections

Thank you to our donors for making our mission possible through your generous support.
Picture

Company

About
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Support

Contact
​Menu
WEBSITE DESIGN INFORMATION:
The TRIP Initiative website was built by Alesandra (Sasha) Temerte (TRIP@TU'17 alum) ​ and Charity Robbins (TRIP@TU'22) and is not a product of Fox Chase Cancer Center
© COPYRIGHT 2023. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
WEBSITE DESIGN BY ALESANDRA SASHA TEMERTE & CHARITY ROBBINS
LOGO DESIGN BY ARNAV DHINGRA
Photo from NIH-NCATS
  • Home
    • About Us
    • Donate
    • FAQs - Summer TRIP
    • Contact
  • Blog
  • ALUMNI GALLERY
    • Ursinus 2015
    • Temple 2015
    • WTHS 2016
    • Temple 2016
    • WTHS 2017
    • Temple 2017
    • WTHS 2018
    • Temple 2018
    • WTHS 2019
    • Temple 2019
    • WTHS 2020
    • WTHS 2021
    • Temple 2021
    • WTHS 2022
    • Temple 2022
    • WTHS 2023
    • WTHS 2024
    • WTHS 2025
  • WTHS'25 Symposium
    • WTHS'25 Symposium Schedule >
      • Session A Schedule
      • Session B Schedule
  • Donate