MicroMundo is a CITIZEN SCIENCE and SERVICE-LEARNING project to DISCOVER new antibiotics, raise awareness in society of the great PUBLIC HEALTH problem posed by antibiotic-resistant microorganisms and promote scientific culture
MicroMundo is the Spanish branch of international projects Tiny Earth (2018, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery) y Small World Initiative (SWI; Yale University, 2012) created by the team of Dr. Jo Handelsman in the USA, where they have achieved great success. Its objective is to bring the scientific culture on antibiotic resistance, the perspective One Health, and Microbiology and biomedical research in general to young students to foster vocations for STEM degrees and R&D. To do this, it uses a “crowdsourcing” strategy aimed at the discovery of new antibiotics. The experimental approach recapitulates the famous chance finding of penicillin by Fleming or the discovery of streptomycin by Waksman, albeit in a targeted and participatory way.
From the Spanish Society of Microbiology (SEM), we coordinate the Red MicroMundo in which some thirty Universities and Research Institutes from all over the Iberian Peninsula participate, including the universities of Santiago de Compostela, La Coruña, Vigo, Autónoma de Barcelona, Miguel Hernández (Alicante), Navarra, Castilla-La Mancha, Santander, Salamanca , Valencia, Zaragoza, CEU Cardenal Herrera, CEU San Pablo, León, Balearic Islands, La Rioja, Murcia, Seville. Granada, Jaén and Porto, among others.
If your secondary school is interested in participating, in the list below you have the contacts of the different universities that participate.
welcome to MicroMundo.
The Microworld Network
- University of Alcalá: Contact. Twitter
- Autonomous University of Barcelona: Contact, Web, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
- Autonomous University of Madrid: Twitter
- University of Almeria: Contact, Instagram.
- Autonomous University of Barcelona: Contact, Web, Twitter, Instagram
- University of Burgos.
- CEU-Cardenal Herrera University: Contact, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube
- University of Castilla – La Mancha (Albacete): Contact, Twitter, Instagram
- University of Castilla – La Mancha (Toledo): Contact, Twitter, Instagram
- University of cantabria. Twitter
- Complutense University: Contact, Web, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
- University of Córdoba. Contact, Instagram
- Autonomous University of Barcelona: Contact, Instagram
- Jaen University: Contact, Twitter, Facebook
- Autonomous University of Barcelona: Contact, contact 2, Twitter
- University of La Rioja: Contact
- University of Leon: Contact, contact-2, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
- Miguel Hernández University: Contact, Twitter
- University of Murcia: Contact
- University of Navarra: Contact, Twitter, Instagram
- University of Porto: Contact, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
- University of Salamanca: Contact, Web, Twitter, Instagram
- San Pablo-CEU University: Instagram
- University of Santiago de Compostela: contact 1, contact 2, contact 3.
- Sevilla University: Contact, Instagram
- Autonomous University of Barcelona: Contact, Blog, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube
- University of Vigo: contacto, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
- Zaragoza's University: Contact, Twitter, Instagram, Tik-Tok
6 Comments
Hola
I would like to know how I can collaborate. I teach in the upper cycle of clinical laboratory, so my students may be interested.
Gracias!
Hello good. Thanks for the interest. You have to contact the nearest university that is included in the project network list. They will give you more information.
As indicated in the text, the University of Santiago de Compostela has participated in this Network since 2017, but our contact does not appear in the list of centers. We would like you to add our contact to that list.
email of faculty responsible for MicroMundo at USC
Trinidad by Miguel Bouzas (trinidad.demiguel@usc.es)
Sandra Sánchez Poza (sandra.sanchez@usc.es)
Jesús Ángel López Romalde (jesus.romalde@usc.es)
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Made. Check that the links work
Good morning,
I am a Professor in a center in Huesca and the closest University is Zaragoza. But when I contact it it won't let me contact. Would there be any other way to achieve it?
Gracias,
Good
Thanks for the interest. Let's check what's happening.
Greetings