{"id":251,"date":"2018-05-16T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/?p=251"},"modified":"2018-05-16T12:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T17:00:46","slug":"student-project-aubree-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/2018\/05\/16\/student-project-aubree-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Student project &#8211; Aubree Hill, PhD, Environmental Sciences-Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/au.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-294\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/au.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"259\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Environmental Sciences-Biology student Aubree Hill is working to develop a treatment for amphibians infected with a deadly fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). She is specifically researching the salamander microbiome\u2014or community of naturally occurring bacteria on the skin\u2014and whether it can inhibit or eliminate growth of the fungus. Aubree and her team captured, swabbed and released more than 350 salamanders this year. They then isolated the bacteria from the swabs and challenged them against Bd to determine their ability to inhibit fungal growth. These so-called candidate probiotic species may then be recommended for therapeutic treatments of infected amphibians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/Student-project-Aubree-Hill-b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-290\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/Student-project-Aubree-Hill-b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"266\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Aubree also hopes to gain a better understanding of the structure of the amphibian skin microbiome as a whole and whether it varies across taxonomic groups of salamanders, habitat types and seasons. She will use TTU\u2019s new Illumina MiSeq DNA sequencing instrument to help make these comparisons. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aubree recently presented her research on the salamander microbiome at the Tennessee Herpetological Society annual meeting in Knoxville. Her advisor is Donald Walker.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Sciences-Biology student Aubree Hill is working to develop a treatment for amphibians infected with a deadly fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). She is specifically researching the salamander microbiome\u2014or community of naturally occurring bacteria on the skin\u2014and whether it can inhibit or eliminate growth of the fungus. Aubree and her team captured, swabbed and released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general-post","7":"category-information","8":"category-interviewfeature","9":"category-life-of-a-grad-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/graduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}