Tiny earth: A big idea for stem education and antibiotic discovery

  • Amanda Hurley
  • , Marc G. Chevrette
  • , Deepa D. Acharya
  • , Gabriel L. Lozano
  • , Manuel Garavito
  • , Jen Heinritz
  • , Luis Balderrama
  • , Mara Beebe
  • , Martel L. Denhartog
  • , Kamiyah Corinaldi
  • , Renee Engels
  • , Alyssa Gutierrez
  • , Orli Jona
  • , Josephine H.I. Putnam
  • , Brody Rhodes
  • , Tiffany Tsang
  • , Simon Hernandez
  • , Carol Bascom-Slack
  • , Jessamina E. Blum
  • , Paul A. Price
  • Debra Davis, Joanna Klein, Joshua Pultorak, Nora L. Sullivan, Nigel J. Mouncey, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Sarah Miller, Nichole A. Broderick, Jo Handelsman

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numbere03432-20
Pages (from-to)1-7
Number of pages7
JournalmBio
Volume12
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2021

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Hurley et al.

Keywords

  • Antimicrobial activity
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Multiomics

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