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Commitment to Outreach and Knowledge Transfer<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Molecular Microbiology Group actively participates in a range of science outreach and knowledge transfer activities aimed at the general public, pre-university education, and the industrial sector. These initiatives seek to bring research closer to society, foster scientific vocations, and promote the application of knowledge in professional and educational settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Promoting Scientific Vocations<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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MicroM\u00f3n (a Tiny Earth International Project Initiative)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MicroM\u00f3n @ UAB is the local implementation of the Tiny Earth project, a global network of students and faculty dedicated to the discovery of antibiotics from soil samples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project aims to spark interest in science and technology among secondary school and high school students, while addressing one of the major health challenges of our time: global antibiotic resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the framework of MicroM\u00f3n, UAB undergraduate students, under the supervision of UAB Microbiology faculty, bring a real research project into classrooms. In this initiative, secondary and high school students, guided by UAB students, isolate antibiotic-producing bacteria in their own schools through a challenge-based service-learning project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further information is available on the project website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Summer Internships within the ARG\u00d3 Program<\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2003, the ARG\u00d3 project\u2014initiated and funded by UAB\u2014has offered research internships for secondary school students in the University\u2019s laboratories. The Molecular Microbiology Group actively participates in the program, hosting students in training placements focused on \u201cphage therapy as an alternative strategy to antibiotics<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Other Outreach Activities<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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