Sunday, December 18, 2011

Synchronized E. coli

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/video/0110geneticclock.mov

Neat experiment Showing bacterial coordination in a cool visual way. All done with E. coli modified to carry a green fluorescent protein

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

comments open on Micro course blog

Hi all - just set it up so that any of you can comment on articles/posts. Please feel free to participate long after you are done with the course!

along those lines, please feel free to share anything that you find that you think may be of interest to the group

cheers

Thursday, December 1, 2011

http://www.atcc.org/CulturesandProducts/PhotoContest/tabid/2007/Default.aspx

Thought this was very relevant to our class - ATCC is holding it's imaging contest. Check out their entries at the above URL - click on "view entries". I think if we had had official ATCC cultures then some of the microbial art pieces you put together would have easily had a shot!  The shot from their page shown below is actually Serratia marcescens - a species that we used this semester too