Blog Post Week 1

 

This week, I met up with my research mentor to discuss what my interests are, so that we can work on something I have been looking to do. Since I want to study cancer in the future, I brought up this idea to see if there is anything available in this area. Unfortunately, none of us believed my research could be safely done in the PC Lab, but we chose to go with something similar. 

Thus, I am exploring medicinal plants and their effects on various bacteria. We all know that there are so many drugs in nature that have been discovered and being used to treat people’s diseases. Some of these drugs are used on patients with cancer and are proved to be very effective. 

The plan is to study various bacteria, and then take it further down to finding medicinal drugs and eventually test different natural compounds against different bacteria.