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Design your own bacteria!
Hands-on Activities
How could you design a new type of bacteria that helps people?
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Colouring Clothing with Bacteria
Backgrounders
Learn about using bacteria to colour clothing.
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Plastic-Eating Bacteria: Nature's Recyclers
Backgrounders
Learn how bacteria can help solve the world’s plastic problem.
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Sara Matthews
Career Profiles
Researcher - Environmental Microbiology
![Harvesting plants](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2023-01/medicago%20harvesting.jpeg?itok=rvW_dGk_)
Using Plants to Make Medicines
Backgrounders
Learn how plants can be used to make vaccines.
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Let's Talk Misinformation: Resources
Backgrounders
Discover a set of resources to get you thinking about misinformation and its spread in advance of the symposium Let's Talk Misinformation.
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Allison Guitor
Career Profiles
Researcher - Antibiotic Resistance
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Manpreet Kaur (She/Her)
Career Profiles
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Medicine and Science: Resources
Backgrounders
Discover a set of resources designed to get you thinking about the intersection of medicine and science.
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Dr. Rod Russell
Professor of Virology and Immunology
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Arinjay Banerjee (he/him)
Research Scientist and Principal Investigator
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Summer Symposium Series: Health Sciences Career Resources
Backgrounders
A career in the health sciences would let you help people directly in a very 'hands-on' way!
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Marianne Torres-Heckford
Microbiology Technologist
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Resources on Immunology
STEM Explained
Resource page including articles and career profiles related to immunology.
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What’s Special About the New COVID-19 Vaccines?
STEM Explained
Learn about viruses, vaccines and why the new COVID-19 vaccines are innovative.