- My lab works on a whole array of topics
related to microorganisms, particularly bacteria.
And so bacteria are tiny, little cells
that most people think are bad,
but actually keep the world running the way it does.
And one of the things they do is congregate with each other.
And that's the kind of thing that we would wanna study,
is that communication and interaction process
among bacteria.
- We study the microbes that live in the soil.
We're interested in discovering antibiotics
and understanding how antibiotics work in nature,
and understanding better how we can use them
in medical fields.
Science is a very collaborative endeavor,
so I do a lot of it with other people,
especially in the lab when I'm learning new techniques.
- Tiny Earth is this amazing network
of many different kinds of people,
instructors and even students like you,
where we bring together a mix of chemists and biologists
and even computational scientists
to try and figure out how to come up with new antibiotics
to fight all of these new infections
that are coming up across the world.