By Jillian Pabalan Faculty Mentor: Davis Oldham Abstract Tuberculosis (TB) is a respiratory infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Drug-resistant TB presents an ever-growing threat to global health, necessitating the development of new antitubercular drugs. MTB proliferation is facilitated in part by KasA, an enzyme critical to the formation of the bacterial cell wall; high-throughput…