And so, #14DaysofMicrobiologyPoems continues. I reached out to the science Twitterverse earlier this month in search of 14 microbes worthy of poems. Here is Poem Four, requested by @TyFordFever.
Category: Microbiology Poems
Vibrio natriegens: the speedster bacterium
And so, #14DaysofMicrobiologyPoems continues. I reached out to the science Twitterverse earlier this month in search of 14 microbes worthy of poems. Here is Poem Three, requested by @hhlee.
Bacillus subtilis: Gram-positive flagella building
And so, #14DaysofMicrobiologyPoems continues. I reached out to the science Twitterverse earlier this month in search of 14 microbes worthy of poems. Here is Poem Two, requested by @SandraMicrogirl.
Francisella tularensis: from vineyards to hare hunts
And so I begin #14DaysofMicrobiologyPoems. I reached out to the science Twitterverse earlier this month in search of 14 microbes worthy of poems. Here is Poem One, requested by @KateBradfordSci.
Bdellovibrio, the microscopic vampire
I was inspired to write this poem (first poem on The Microbial Menagerie!) from a writing workshop I’ve been taking. We were reading Workshop by BIlly Collins, and there was a line in there “Or is it a kind of indoor cemetery? There’s something about death going on here.” that this is loosely based upon.