Tiny Earth: A Big Idea for STEM Education and Antibiotic Discovery
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Date
2021
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American Society of Microbiology
Abstract
The world faces two seemingly unrelated challenges-a shortfall in the STEM workforce and increasing antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens. We address these two challenges with Tiny Earth, an undergraduate research course that excites students about science and creates a pipeline for antibiotic discovery.
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antimicrobial activity, crowdsourcing, multiomics, UNDERGRADUATE SCIENCE, Microbiology
Citation
Hurley, A., Chevrette, M. G., Acharya, D. D., Lozano, G. L., Garavito, M., Heinritz, J., Balderrama, L., Beebe, M., DenHartog, M. L., Corinaldi, K., Engels, R., Gutierrez, A., Jona, O., Putnam, J. H. I., Rhodes, B., Tsang, T., Hernandez, S., Bascom-Slack, C., Blum, J. E., … Handelsman, J. (2021). Tiny Earth: A Big Idea for STEM Education and Antibiotic Discovery. In J. Graf (Ed.), mBio (Vol. 12, Issue 1). American Society for Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03432-20