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

doi:10.1128/mBio.03432-20

DOI: 10.1128/mBio.03432-20

Article Information

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.03432-20

PubMed

33593964

Published By

American Society for Microbiology

History

Received December 21, 2020
Accepted January 4, 2021
Published online February 16, 2021.

Editors and / or Reviewers

Joerg Graf, Editor, University of Connecticut

Author Information

Amanda Hurley^a,
Marc G. Chevrette^a,
Deepa D. Acharya^a,
Gabriel L. Lozano^a,^b,
Manuel Garavito^a,
Jen Heinritz^a,
Luis Balderrama^a,^c,
Mara Beebe^a,
Martel L. DenHartog^a,
Kamiyah Corinaldi^d,^e,
Renee Engels^a,
Alyssa Gutierrez^d,^f,
Orli Jona^a,
Josephine H. I. Putnam^a,
Brody Rhodes^d,^g,
Tiffany Tsang^h,
Simon Hernandezⁱ,
Carol Bascom-Slack^j,
Jessamina E. Blum^k,
Paul A. Price^l,
Debra Davis^m,
Joanna Kleinⁿ,
Joshua Pultorak^a,
Nora L. Sullivan^o,
Nigel J. Mouncey^p,
Pieter C. Dorrestein^q,
Sarah Miller^d,
Nichole A. Broderick^r,^s,
Jo Handelsman^a

^aWisconsin Institute for Discovery and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
^bDivision of Infectious Diseases and Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
^cHamline University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
^dWisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
^eColorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
^fUniversity of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
^gUniversity of West Alabama, Livingston, Alabama, USA
^hDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
ⁱUniversity of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA
^jDepartment of Medical Education, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
^kUniversity of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
^lDepartment of Biology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
^mDepartment of Biology, Wingate University, Wingate, North Carolina, USA
ⁿDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Northwestern-St. Paul, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
^oBiology Department, Citrus College, Glendora, California, USA
^pJoint Genome Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
^qCollaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
^rDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Mansfield, Connecticut, USA
^sDepartment of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Address correspondence to Nichole A. Broderick, nbroder1{at}jhu.edu, or Jo Handelsman, jo.handelsman{at}wisc.edu.
Citation Hurley A, Chevrette MG, Acharya DD, Lozano GL, Garavito M, Heinritz J, Balderrama L, Beebe M, DenHartog ML, Corinaldi K, Engels R, Gutierrez A, Jona O, Putnam JHI, Rhodes B, Tsang T, Hernandez S, Bascom-Slack C, Blum JE, Price PA, Davis D, Klein J, Pultorak J, Sullivan NL, Mouncey NJ, Dorrestein PC, Miller S, Broderick NA, Handelsman J. 2021. Tiny Earth: a big idea for STEM education and antibiotic discovery. mBio 12:e03432-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.03432-20.

This article is a direct contribution from Jo Handelsman, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, who arranged for and secured reviews by William Metcalf, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and Margaret McFall-Ngai, University of Hawaii at Manoa.