Bacteria are developing resistance to our antibiotics at a faster rate than we can develop new ones. Before the discovery of penicillin,...

As for the mountain, I was thinking about the current crisis of soil erosion and its effect of limiting bacteria diversity. When we start...

I wanted to do my project on the diversity that we have been able to explore in this class, I feel like until I started this class, I had...

The world is filled with mysteries, isn’t it? From long ago, we as humans push the limits and our curiosity by testing through...

This painting represents all the organisms I first found in the soil, using our high-tech plastic spoon, and a petri plate containing the...

The Tiny Earth Project is described as “a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) developed in 2012 by Professor Jo...

When you hear the word bacteria, what immediately comes to mind? In general, people usually associate bacteria with infections and...

For a microbiologist, the most common form of visualization for their results is through some sort of media. Whether it be solid or...

Ever since I studied the complexity of microbes in General Microbiology, I have been extremely interested in bacteria and viruses! The...

Antibiotics are such an important aspect of our lives that many people may not even realize. In our normal, everyday lives, if we aren't...

Perhaps one of the greatest accomplishments of science was the discovery of Antibiotics. Antibiotics are a class of chemical molecules...

Microbial diversity refers to the vast number of microorganisms that exist everywhere on our planet and inside of us. It’s important that...