First-class online event: A tiny initiative makes a big difference: Tiny Earth- studentsourcing antibiotic discovery from soil

Are you bored from Covid-19 these days? Do you need a mental boost, ideas, inspiration and appreciation? Would you like to get practical experience and make a difference with your work? If yes, this is the event for you!

Mark your calendar on July 8, 2021 and reserve 3 to 5 p.m. for a unique online meeting via Zoom.
The Tiny Earth project connects students from all over the world to find new antibiotic-producing microorganisms from soil to fight antibiotic resistance. Thus, this is our opportunity to help make the world better.

We are happy to announce a seminar by Professor Jo Handelsman, Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. She previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama as the Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), where she served for three years until January 2017. (https://wid.wisc.edu/people/jo-handelsman/).
Dr. Handelsman will introduce us to the Tiny Earth initiative.

Feel free to get acquainted with the initiative and the topic in advance following this link: https://tinyearth.wisc.edu/about-us/

We are happy to welcome you all to listen to Dr. Handelsman! However, for organizational reasons, we would like to know the number of attendees beforehand. Therefore, we kindly ask you to register to the event via mail at info@fsbio.rwth-aachen.de

The seminar will be given in English. The program and the Zoom link will be announced shortly before the event on Facebook, Instagram, and on our website.

You will have to register under the following link: https://s.bts-ev.de/tinyearth

We are very happy to have Jo Handelsman talking to us and we much look forward to welcoming you and your questions and suggestions to the talk.

All best wishes,

your Student Council