Window on the world...
Im a couple of weeks into work now and I suppose you might be wondering what I actually get up to. Below are a taster of what I get to look at... bacterial scunge.
This picture 100 times magnified and shows the edge of the flow cell at the bottom of the picture and above the line half way up the picture are the bacteria growing on the surface of the glass.
I have zoomed in (400x) on some of those bacteria, who in this flow cell, like to grow in clusters. These are big groups of bacteria all growing quite quickly in this ball like structure... we dont really know why they do this yet.
This picture is looking at one individual colony of cells, 1000x normal size. You can see the individual cells. This is a seething mass of bacteria all jostling about and slithering around... its very cool to watch!
(look I know it's not as exciting as Maud on a sledge but I have limited "cute" subject matter)
2 comments:
do they huddle together to stay warm???
Probably yep... like penguins! They are doing something in there, and that's one of the things we are trying to work out.
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