Senior Biological Research

Generating data for and presenting at the California Institute of Techology

The Senior Biological Research class recently presented data at Caltech that was empirically-generated at Poly for Caltech’s Karthikeyan lab. The data involved screening bacterial DNA samples from Caltech for antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) using protocols that students had to optimize, followed by using this data to test the prediction accuracy of an ARG prediction model. The design, optimization and data generation took place over the entire academic year culminating with data presentation and a question and answer session to the lab group at Caltech. The PRI thanks the Karthikeyan lab for this collaborative project.