Uploaded September 2013 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

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Naowarat (Ann) Cheeptham, a Professor at Thompson Rivers University, describes her research of exploring caves to find new species of bacteria and fungi that can produce the next generation of life-saving antibiotics.

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Animated by: Jorge Cham
Produced by Piled Higher and Deeper in partnership with The Cheeptham Laboratory at Thompson Rivers University. Funding provided by the TRU Internal Research Fund for Scholarship and Scholarly Teaching (IRFSST) and the Society for Applied Microbiology Public Engagement Fund.

Featuring: Naowarat (Ann) Cheeptham faculty.tru.ca/ncheeptham

Image sources: Kent Watson, Cheeptham Lab; mightybackgrounds.com