Publications
Tiny Earth is committed to scholarship in research, teaching, and learning. Check out our publications from the leadership team to illustrate the scientific and educational expertise in Tiny Earth.
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AJEDI in Science: Leveraging instructor communities to create antiracist curricula
Miller, S., Kerr, J. E., & Handelsman, J. (2022). AJEDI in Science: Leveraging Instructor Communities to Create Antiracist Curricula. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 23(1), e00248-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00248-21
Rapid Pivot of CURE Wet Lab to Online with the Help of Instructor Communities
González-Orta, E. T., Tobiason, D., Gasper, B. J., Raja, A., & Miller, S. (2022). Rapid Pivot of CURE Wet Lab to Online with the Help of Instructor Communities. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 23(1), e00250-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00250-21
Tiny Earth: A big idea for STEM education and antibiotic discovery
Hurley, A., Chevrette, M. G., Acharya, D. D., & Handelsman, J. (2021, February 16). Tiny Earth: A Big Idea for STEM Education and Antibiotic Discovery | mBio. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.03432-20
Marvasi, M., Casillas, L., Vassallo, A., & Purchase, D. (2021). Educational Activities for Students and Citizens Supporting the One-Health Approach on Antimicrobial Resistance. Antibiotics, 10(12), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10121519
Tiny Earth Pivot: Impacts of COVID-19 on faculty mentoring and teaching
Estrada, M., Hernandez, P., Handelsman, J., MILLER, S., Broderick, N., Patterson, M., Nyanamba, J., Du, Z., Young, G., Maldonado, N., Watson, L., & Sandoval, P. (2020). Tiny Earth PIVOT: Impacts of COVID-19 on Faculty Mentoring and Teaching (Version 1). Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13564505.v1
Alvarado, M., Clemente-Casares, P., Moreno, D. A., & de Groot, P. W. J. (n.d.). MicroMundo Upside Down: Targeted Searching for Antibiotics-Producing Bacteria From Soil With Reverse Antibiosis Approaches. Frontiers. Retrieved November 7, 2023, from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.577550/full
Basalla, J., Harris, R., Burgess, E., Zeedyk, N., & Wildschutte, H. (2020). Expanding Tiny Earth to genomics: A bioinformatics approach for an undergraduate class to characterize antagonistic strains. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 367(1), fnaa018. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnaa018
Tiny Earth: A research guide to student sourcing antibiotic discovery
Handelsman, J., Hernandez, S., Tsang, T., & Bascom-Slack, C. (n.d.). Tiny Earth—A Research guide to Studentsourcing Antibiotic Discovery (2022nd ed.).
Scientific Teaching, Mentoring, and Diversity in Science
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. (2012). Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (p. 130). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JvNHFB7RImIIjXECsT_lf7Kq6kAe2LT2/view
A Summer Institute to Improve University Science Teaching
Pfund, C., Miller, S., Brenner, K., Bruns, P., Chang, A., Ebert-May, D., Fagen, A. P., Gentile, J., Gossens, S., Khan, I. M., Labov, J. B., Pribbenow, C. M., Susman, M., Tong, L., Wright, R., Yuan, R. T., Wood, W. B., & Handelsman, J. (2009). Summer Institute to Improve University Science Teaching. Science, 324(5926), 470–471. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1170015
Scientific Teaching in Practice
Miller, S., Pfund, C., Pribbenow, C. M., & Handelsman, J. (2008). Scientific Teaching in Practice. Science, 322(5906), 1329–1330. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1166032
Handelsman, J., Miller, S., & Pfund, C. (2007). Scientific Teaching. WH Freeman & Co. https://books.google.com/books/about/Scientific_Teaching.html?id=suf0MvxqoLQC
The Merits of Training Mentors
Pfund, C., Maidl Pribbenow, C., Branchaw, J., Miller Lauffer, S., & Handelsman, J. (2006). The Merits of Training Mentors. Science, 311(5760), 473–474. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1123806v
Entering Mentoring (free download)
Handelsman, J., Pfund, C., Miller Lauffer, S., & Maidl Pribbenow, C. (2005). Entering Mentoring: A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Scientists. https://www.hhmi.org/sites/default/files/Educational%20Materials/Lab%20Management/entering_mentoring.pdfv
Entering Mentoring (Adaptations)
Mentor Curricula and Training: Entering Mentoring – CIMER. (n.d.). Retrieved November 8, 2023, from https://cimerproject.org/entering-mentoring/
Handelsman, J., Ebert-May, D., Beichner, R., Bruns, P., Chang, A., DeHaan, R., Gentile, J., Lauffer, S., Stewart, J., Tilghman, S. M., & Wood, W. B. (2004). Scientific Teaching. Science, 304(5670), 521–522. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1096022
Microbiology, Soil Science, and Discovery of New Molecules
Evolutionary Genome Mining for the Discovery and Engineering of Natural Product Biosynthesis
Chevrette, M. G., Selem-Mojica, N., Aguilar, C., Labby, K., Bustos-Diaz, E. D., Handelsman, J., & Barona-Gómez, F. (2022). Evolutionary Genome Mining for the Discovery and Engineering of Natural Product Biosynthesis. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2489, 129–155. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2273-5_8