Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States.
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, United States.
Elife. 2022 Nov 1;11:e83067. doi: 10.7554/eLife.83067.
A morbidostat is a bioreactor that uses antibiotics to control the growth of bacteria, making it well-suited for studying the evolution of antibiotic resistance. However, morbidostats are often too expensive to be used in educational settings. Here we present a low-cost morbidostat called the EVolutionary biorEactor (EVE) that can be built by students with minimal engineering and programming experience. We describe how we validated EVE in a real classroom setting by evolving replicate populations under chloramphenicol challenge, thereby enabling students to learn about bacterial growth and antibiotic resistance.
一种病态生长限制器是一种使用抗生素来控制细菌生长的生物反应器,非常适合研究抗生素耐药性的演变。然而,病态生长限制器通常过于昂贵,无法在教育环境中使用。在这里,我们提出了一种低成本的病态生长限制器,称为 EVolutionary biorEactor(EVE),它可以由具有最小工程和编程经验的学生构建。我们描述了如何通过在氯霉素挑战下进化复制种群来在真实的课堂环境中验证 EVE,从而使学生了解细菌生长和抗生素耐药性。