Carlos Garbisu gave a TEDx talk in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4QAo6mWPoE) on the well-known problem of the dissemination of antibiotic resistance among bacteria. He focused his talk on the need to carry out research on Microbial Ecology to better understand the behaviour of bacteria in their natural environment, so that we can then design more effective strategies to fight bacterial pathogens and, alternatively, to learn from the incredible metabolic capacities found in the bacterial world.