 So my research is focusing on antimicrobial resistance and what that means is when bacteria can acquire genes that makes them resistant to the drugs that we use to treat them. And this is a global problem for both human and animal health and it's a very complex issue. So in New Zealand we don't know a lot about what's happening in New Zealand dairy farm systems and it's quite difficult to compare with overseas because of the low antibiotic use we have and also because we are mainly a pasture based system compared to overseas where they use a lot of indoor housing so we have quite a unique dairy farming system. There's been a little bit of study on infections in cattle for example mastitis but my study really wants to look at the whole farm environment. So looking at the soil, the feces, the bulk tank milk, the feed and also looking at the effect the antibiotic treatment has on the microbes in the ruminant gut. For my project I'm kind of using two approaches so for the environmental samples I'll be collecting soil, effluent feces and various other types and I'll actually try and isolate antibiotic resistant bacteria, certain types from these samples but I'll also be doing what we call a next generation sequencing approach which means we can actually take that sample so it's soil I'll extract all the DNA or genetic material in that sample and then I will sequence them and work out if there's any antibiotic resistance gene.