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

There is a world of exciting and diverse microscopic organisms living right below our feet. Everywhere we step, there is an unimaginable...

What would you do if you learned that millions of potential lifesaving treatments were removed from existence? If a new, cheap, form of...

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...

Microbial diversity is an important field in biology that scientists in the past, present, and future, have studied, need to study, and...

So often the world is viewed on a macroscopic scale and it can be difficult to understand the importance of microscopic organisms on the...

When hearing the words microbiology, some people get startled and confused as to what it means. What is it? Why is it important? Well...

Prior to signing up for this class, my knowledge of multi-drug resistant pathogens and the urgent need to discover new antibiotics was...

Bacteria are everywhere, they are too small for our naked eye to see and comes in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and types. Although only a...

In the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world witnessed how even the tiniest of entities can drastically affect the global order....

As a Sacramento State student, I had the privilege of doing research in one of my biology classes for the Tiny Earth Network. I wanted to...

Soil! Many of the antibiotics we currently have are derived from soil bacteria. The diversity of soil microbes is vast, yet, we are only...

I was going into my final semester of studying microbiology at Sacramento State University. One of the classes listed on my ...

As a transfer student coming into this Diversity of Microorganisms class, I knew the gist of how the class was going to go. I would be...

Spring 2020 started as one of my best semesters in recent years at Sacramento State. Why? Well, lots of things. Each year that I work as...