More soil Actinobacteria to brighten up your feed. The middle one is a strain of Micromonospora I isolated. The colony just above it has erupted and started to sporulate fantastically warty, brown spores. #Antibiotics #soil #microbialcosmos

TED Day2: a hat featuring a 3D printed Bacillus bacterial biofilm. Today the story I share is that this species produces Bacitracin (a topical antibiotic.) Doesn’t that make the hat more beautiful? #TED2019 @TEDTalks #scicomm #sciart #microbialcosmos #biocosmosfashion #engagement

Could there be two more different worlds than the sea and the air? And yet, to microbes, the air is filled with droplets of water, the sea is filled with bubbles of air. The boundaries erode—the differences erased—once we change our perspective. #scale #microbialcosmos

The spiraling galaxies of microorganisms that live on my boots.
#MicrobeGifs #MicrobialCosmos #MicrobesMoveMe #WhatLiesBeneath #Underfoot #UnexploredWorlds