More #violacein-producing #bacteria getting #weird in Jonathan Eisen lab. Duganella violace....?

Two years ago, my wife Jennifer Quinn painted this lovely bit of #AgarArt using GFP and RFP and violacein expressing E. coli. Please applaud her! Univ. of Puget Sound ASM Jennifer Quinn

B16 melanoma cells crawl like this for brief periods of time. But they do some other cool stuff too; so they have found their way back to my microscope. #CellBiology #microscopy

🧫Bacteria Fractals! —The Social Behavior Of Bacteria, Trippily Explored In Art —"The advanced collective and social intelligence of #bacteria colonies makes for some very psychedelic design."- Dr. Eshel Ben-Jacob #BioArt —bit.ly/2T9cB72 #FractalFriday #ArtScience

✨Congratulations to the 2019 Olympus Image of the Year Award winners! 🔬—Check out the winning images here: bit.ly/3an2T6Y via @OlympusLifeSci. #BioArt #ArtScience #SciComm #Microscopy

And the collection grows...by the end of all of this I’m going to have crocheted the entire lab 😳 #UnitedAgainstCOVID19

I've been so excited to share this blog post about Winogradsky columns! Here it is! Transform soil into a beautiful display of microbes. #scicomm #microbes #Winogradsky justinedees.com/2020/04/09/win…

✨Congratulations to the 2019 CHANL’s Scientific Art Competition winners! —"gives members of the campus research and science community a chance to showcase their data as art." —Check out the winning images here: unc.live/2VuXRiu #BioArt #ArtScience #SciComm #Microscopy

⏰2 years ago I painted 🎨#TheStarryNight ✨🌙 of #VanGogh in a #PetriDish 🧫 using #bioluminiscent #bacteria isolated from a squid 🦑during the #microbiology 🦠practices in Facultad de Ciencias 🔬 Universidad de Navarra #AgarArt #bioart #unav #ArtScience #SciArt #art #science FECYT

#DescribeThatMicrobe Agar contaminants looking like something out of Star trek! #SciComm #Science #microbiology ASM @SfAMtweets Contamination Club

The Social Biofilm Network Here's a fun contaminant/lab pet unearthed from the 4C during our last lab cleanup day! Contamination Club

📢Call for Microscopy Images! 🔬—for the 2020 Olympus Image of the Year Award —Enter your images here: bit.ly/35LEvfW @OlympusLifeSci #BioArt #ArtScience #SciComm #Microscopy🔬

I don't know if I can express how proud I am of my little slime mold.

🧫Bacteria Fractals! —The Social Behavior Of Bacteria, Trippily Explored in Art —"#BacteriaArt represents the same complexity on the border btw order + disorder that is at the heart of all good design" Dr. Eshel Ben-Jacob #BioArt—bit.ly/2T9cB72 #FractalFriday #ArtScience

🧫Vibrant Symbiosis: Achieving reciprocal #ScienceOutreach through #BiologicalArt —Super cool #SymbioticOutreach model + vital #DiversifyArtScience work —bit.ly/2Pd2pVE PLOS Biology by Lindsey Lopes et al. #SciComm #ArtScience #Streptomyces #BioArt

🦠🍄Decomposition x Collaboration with Bacteria, Fungi + SlimeMolds for Art! —by artist Dasha Plesen —the ongoing project began with “the idea of microbiological mapping of our surroundings,” bit.ly/3EVw7cQ #ArtScience #BioArt #MicrobeMonday

Here is a dance for you. Feel free to identify the organism and the pattern.