Lewis and Ciccone co-author citizen science article

Danica Lewis and Karen Ciccone are among six authors of an article in the open-access journal PeerJ. “Catalyzing rapid discovery of gold-precipitating bacterial lineages with university students” presents work on NC State’s citizen science initiative on Delftia. 

From the abstract: "Intriguing and potentially commercially useful microorganisms are found in our surroundings and new tools allow us to learn about their genetic potential and evolutionary history. Engaging students from different disciplines and courses in the search for microbes requires an exciting project with innovative but straightforward procedures and goals. Here we describe an interdisciplinary program to engage students from different courses in the sampling, identification and analysis of the DNA sequences of a unique yet common microbe, Delftia spp...." 

Congratulations, Danica and Karen!