• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

• BIOL 1961

Research Proposal Outline Use this form to plan out the ideas you will present in your proposal. Your lab instructor will give you feedback to help you with your final proposal. Note that we have left the abstract section off of this outline form, as the abstract serves as a brief summary of the rest of the proposal. The Research Proposal Grading Rubric is copied at the end of this form for your convenience (it’s also linked in the proposal assignment instructions on Canvas). Your Name: Khanh Tran Your research question: If the population of E. coli is exposed to a combination of antibiotics of cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones, can it still grow over time and have a better effectiveness than rifampicin? Your hypothesis: the mixture of the two antibiotics--cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones--will have a better and more effective impact on the average population growth of E. coli than rifampicin because since E. coli is a gram-negative bacterium, the two antibiotic mixture will perform better against gram-negative bacteria while rifampicin is less active when fighting against gram-negative bacilli. Research Topic Provide a bullet-point list of the key points of background information that you will provide to the reader. In other words, what does your reader need to know about this topic to understand your project and why it’s relevant and interesting? It is fine to put general topics here if you still need to research something (e.g., “brief summary of current research on ____”).  Research about the two antibiotics (cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones) o How much concentration would it take to show effects on gram-negative, E. coli bacteria populations? o Are these two antibioti