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Tiny Earth founder Dr. Jo Handelsman was recently a guest on TEPI Mark O. Martin’s podcast, Matters Microbial. The episode discusses the research conducted in the Handelsman Lab on interactive microbial communities, using The Hitchhikers of the Rhizosphere (THOR) as a model system. Learn more and listen »
Dr. Kristin Labby (left) and Dr. Katherine Maloney (right) How do we know what chemical compounds are causing the antibiotic activity in the isolates Tiny Earthlings find? What can they do after extracting the molecules and testing them for activity? These are questions that the Tiny Earth Chemistry Hub strives to tackle. While Tiny [...]
Tiny Earth Partner Instructor (TEPI) Dr. Jodi Enos-Berlage, a distinguished Biology Professor and researcher at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, dedicates her career to investigating and addressing social and environmental issues in soil science and beyond. Leveraging her background in microbiology, Dr. Enos-Berlage also uses her unique upbringing immersed in agriculture—and its related inequities—to increase [...]
Tiny Earthlings at Eckerd College are leveraging their campus’ community garden for antibiotic discovery. Dr. Steve Denison trained to become a Tiny Earth Partner Instructor last summer, and now his students aim to take advantage of the Eckerd College Community Farm’s unique and diverse soil properties by examining the antibiotic potential of various environments [...]
This past January, Mariah A. Knowles joined the Tiny Earth team as the new Curriculum Lead, transitioning from her former role as a Facilitator at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery’s Data Science Hub. As a self-described “Swiss army knife,” she looks forward to leveraging her broad skill set and experiences, including a decade of [...]
Drs. Laura Pickell and Anil Gollapudi of Carleton University are two of only twelve Tiny Earth Partner Instructors (TEPIs) in Canada, and their involvement in the network has grown significantly since they first joined the Tiny Earth network in 2022. In the past year and a half, they implemented Tiny Earth, developed a student poster [...]
Under the mentorship of TEPI Angelo Kolokithas, two Tiny Earth students, Justyna Kakol and Mainor Vang, at the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College published their Tiny Earth research under microPublication Biology, indexed in the National Library of Medicine. Their research focuses on the antimicrobial activity of the bacterium Paenarthrobacter nicotinovorans. Read the press release » [...]
Tiny Earth Partner Instructors (TEPIs) Angelo Kolokithas (Northeast Wisconsin Technical College), Brian Merkel (UW-Green Bay), David Hunnicutt (St. Norbert College), Lucy Fenzl (College of Menominee Nation), and collaborator Matthew Petersen (Northeast Wisconsin Technical College) recently published an article in Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. Through community engagement in Tiny Earth in Titletown symposia, [...]
