Title: Spatial Dynamics of the Evolution and Spread of Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli in the United StatesAbstract:Antibiotics are essential for treating bacterial infections in both humans and animals. However, growing resistance to antibiotics among bacteria has become a one of the leading global public health concerns in the 21st century. The spread of antibiotic resistance is the result of complex interactions between human, animal, and microbial ecologies. To account for these...

What types of plants, animals, and fungal life might you find at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory? Let's find out!  Join researchers in collecting, observing, and recording biodiversity at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory in our 5th Annual BioBlitz. Your findings will inform a major research project and will contribute to the fifth data point in a multi-year documentation of how diversity changes at this site over time. Collections will be housed with the UI Museum of Natural History...