- It comes from around the country.
So Tiny Earth is again, a network of instructors
and student scientists who go out
into their own communities and talk about antibiotics
and talk about antibiotic resistance
and then collect soil samples from wherever they are.
And they can test those soil samples themselves
in their own laboratories, and then they send us the bacteria
so that we can find the chemicals,
these new antibiotics.
- We need to cast our net wide enough
for us to get all the diversity that is there in the soil.
So if we only collected soil from Madison,
we wouldn't be able to find these new species of bacteria
or the new antibiotics that they could be making.
And so it's important for everyone to pitch in
so that we can really see the immense diversity
that's there in soil across the country.
The students and the instructors are extremely important
to our research, because they are the ones
who go out and find the soil, they are the ones
who do the first tests, and so without them,
we wouldn't have a place to start.