Wilson Hot Springs Using the Molecular Characterization of Microbes From Extreme

Environments To Determine Microbial Diversityand Discover New Antibiotics

Wilson Hot Springs

Wilson Hot Springs

• A unique desert hot springs environment possessing a rich and varied population extremely halophilic microorganisms.

Wilson Hot Springs• Organisms Isolated From Brine and Surface Salts.

Footprint full of ‘pink’ brine on the Wilson Hot Springs Salt Flats

Wilson Hot Springs

• Halophilic Colonies with many unique morphologies

Wilson Hot Springs

Halophilic colonies from all domains

Wilson Hot Springs

Wilson Hot Springs

WHS Isolates Micrographs and Data

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WHSF012M

• Isolated as WHSN1.2#2

WHSF022M

• Isolated as WHSN1.2#7

WHSF031M

• Isolated as TTW#1

WHSF042M

• Isolated as TTW#2

WHSF051M

• Isolated as TTW#3

WHSF062M

• Isolated as RedRiver#1

WHSF071M

• Isolated as RedRiver#5

WHSF082M

• Isolated asWHSS1#2

WHSF092M

• Isolated asWHSS1#5

WHSF102M

• Isolated asWHSS1#8