The Scientist, a leading science magazine focused on exploring life and inspiring innovation, included a feature article in the December 2024 issue on TMI’s founder, Dr. Anne A. Madden. The article, “Inside the Microbial Jungle: Tales from a microbe whisperer,” follows Dr. Madden’s origins as a “microbial whisperer,” and shares her recent efforts to build The Microbe Institute as a NASA for the microbial cosmos. According to their 2024 media kit, The Scientist includes a website with 8.5M pageviews per year, and over 290,000 email and 48,000 print subscribers.

TMI’s Purple Microbe Project and our Morocco Natural Dye Discovery Expedition were featured in an article in the October 2024 issue of The Scientist, a digital and print magazine focused on exploring life and inspiring innovation. According to their 2024 media kit, The Scientist includes a website with 8.5M pageviews per year, and over 290,000 email and 48,000 print subscribers.

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TMI’s Lichen Adventure Citizen Science Project was mentioned in the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens Report on the State of the World’s Plants and Fungi. It was mentioned as an example of a global initiative encouraging the public to search for lichens in their backyards and upload them to global databases to help “fill in gaps” in global understanding of fungal biodiversity.

TMI’s Founder and Chief Scientist, Dr. Anne A. Madden was interviewed on NPR TED Radio hour where she discussed the beneficial role of microbes that live in, on, and around us and why it’s so important we conserve them in order to find the technology that will improve our future. Listen here.

Dr. Anne Madden, TMI’s Founder, was featured in the STEM-ed magazine, Brainspace (fall, 2020 issue), along with discussions of some of TMI’s projects. This award-winning magazine’s audience is 8-14 year olds.

TMI’s founder and chief scientist, Dr. Anne A. Madden, was featured in the cover article of the award-winning SMORE science education magazine. TMI’s project, Community of Microbes, was also featured in a sepearate article in the same issue (Mar/April 2020).