Sharing a beautiful photomicrograph of Trichormus variabilis, a nitrogen-fixing biofilm-forming cyanobacterium with long tangled filaments.🌀
Those eye-like structures made me feel "observed", a fun sort-of revenge from the microbial world.😯
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Thank you to the @quadraminstitute.bsky.social microscopy team for their help with this work!
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Did you know? Marine bacteria such as Vibrio fischeri can form bioluminescent biofilms. These bacteria can form symbiotic relationships with hosts like the Hawaiian bobtail squid, and the glow can help camouflage the squid from its prey!
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Thank you to the @quadraminstitute.bsky.social microscopy team for all their help and guidance with this work!
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Did you know? Not all biofilms are bad. Biofilms actually play important roles in wastewater treatment, bioremediation and even producing electricity in microbial fuel cells!
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✨Last chance to submit to our #BiofilmCreate #competition, which closes tomorrow (17 October 2025)!
🎨 📷 Showcase your talent in photography/art whilst highlighting the impact of #biofilms
🏆Gift cards will be awarded in both categories
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📢Join the #BiofilmCreate competition!
📸Send in your photography and art related to biofilms to @ukbiofilms.bsky.social!
⏰5pm UK time, 17 October 2025.
🎉 Awards include gift cards for first (£200), second (£100) and third (£50) place
👉More details here: biofilms.ac.uk/biofilm-crea...
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✨Submit your entries to our #BiofilmCreate #competition by 17 October 2025!
🎨 📷 Showcase your talent in #photography / #art whilst highlighting the impact of #biofilms
🏆Gift cards will be awarded in both categories
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✨Our annual #BiofilmCreate Competition is open for 2025!
🎨 📷 Showcase your talent in #photography / #art whilst highlighting the impact of #biofilms
🏆Gift cards will be awarded in both categories
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My entry for NBIC (@ukbiofilms.bsky.social) art competition:
"The Forge of Decay"
Peak force tapping AFM topography map of S. mutans biofilm. The firey coal appearence mirror the damage these acidogenic biofilms can cause on enamel!
(Aquired @uonnmrc.bsky.social)
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Did you know biofilms can change their shape?
My entry for the @ukbiofilms.bsky.social create competition, titled "Pleomorphic Biofilm Adaptation on a PBAT Plastic bag." Marinobacter adhaerens hp15 transforming into circular-shaped cells on compostable plastic!
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✨Our annual #BiofilmCreate Competition is open for 2025!
🎨 📷 Showcase your talent in #photography / #art whilst highlighting the impact of #biofilms
🏆Gift cards will be awarded in both categories
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Photosynthetic cascade.
The evolutionary invention of oxygenic photosynthesis by ancestral cyanobacteria forever changed life on Earth. On a warm sunny day, we can appreciate the beauty of cyanobacterial biofilms making oxygen we breathe.
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✨Our annual #BiofilmCreate Competition is now open for 2025!
📷🎨🧑🔬Showcase your talent in #photography / #art whilst highlighting the impact of #biofilms
🏆 Gift cards will be awarded in both categories
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@harryjharvey.bsky.social these are beautiful! Do keep an eye out for our next #BiofilmCreate photography and art competition coming up in May!
