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.
Peering under the microscope with Tracy Debenport
Science meets art on Tracy Debenport’s Instagram page, under.the.scope. It’s full of fluffy fungi on colorful agar plates and fungi transformed through the microscope. Debenport didn’t set out to be a collector of fungi. In a previous life she was a video editor for a reality TV show. But in 2011, after a near fatal…
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.