| Literature DB >> 33593964 |
Amanda Hurley1, Marc G Chevrette1, Deepa D Acharya1, Gabriel L Lozano1,2, Manuel Garavito1, Jen Heinritz1, Luis Balderrama1,3, Mara Beebe1, Martel L DenHartog1, Kamiyah Corinaldi4,5, Renee Engels1, Alyssa Gutierrez4,6, Orli Jona1, Josephine H I Putnam1, Brody Rhodes4,7, Tiffany Tsang8, Simon Hernandez9, Carol Bascom-Slack10, Jessamina E Blum11, Paul A Price12, Debra Davis13, Joanna Klein14, Joshua Pultorak1, Nora L Sullivan15, Nigel J Mouncey16, Pieter C Dorrestein17, Sarah Miller4, Nichole A Broderick18,19, Jo Handelsman20.
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.Keywords: antimicrobial activity; crowdsourcing; multiomics
Year: 2021 PMID: 33593964 DOI: 10.1128/mBio.03432-20
Source DB: PubMed Journal: mBio Impact factor: 7.867