Tiny Earth: A Big Idea for STEM Education and Antibiotic Discovery.
Amanda HurleyMarc G ChevretteDeepa D AcharyaGabriel L LozanoManuel GaravitoJen HeinritzLuis BalderramaMara BeebeMartel L DenHartogKamiyah CorinaldiRenee EngelsAlyssa GutierrezOrli JonaJosephine H I PutnamBrody RhodesTiffany TsangSimon HernandezCarol Bascom-SlackJessamina E BlumPaul A PriceDebra DavisJoanna KleinJoshua PultorakNora L SullivanNigel J MounceyPieter C DorresteinSarah MillerNichole A BroderickJo HandelsmanPublished in: mBio (2021)
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.