DAY 7 // TRANSFORM
Forever traumatised by that electroporation gone wrong ⚡️

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7: TRANSFORM.
That ZAP was always the worst. Bro, my insides felt like they were coming out! The only thing that got me through it was that sweet, sweet SOC.

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Transform
I lost count how many bacteria I transformed… and failed to transform. Every time it succeeded it felt that I created my little superhero. A glowing one, one that doesn’t give a damn to be bathed in antibiotic, one that makes a funny smell…

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6. Sticky

As it is spooky season, here is a pumpkin being 'swallowed' by a very sticky biofilm.

https://t.co/5hsnBnnEK5

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I also wanted to be part of ! This is what comes to my mind when I think about "sticky" (word of the day):

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6: STICKY.
At that very moment Gordon realised its flagella were holding him back. Literally.

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5: FERMENT.
Mmmm that sugar sure does taste goooood. I can't stop... mmmm.... Just another bite... Okay, one more. Yum yum... just one more?

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🧫Calling and
I’ve made a microbe

🧫Want to make model avatars for your research group/members?
🧫Use a fun activity about microbial shapes for &

Just
https://t.co/4bgzc3Ynpx

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4: INVADE.
This broth ain't big enough for the two of us. I'm coming for you, and there's nowhere to hide.

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3: CONTAMINATE.
Cerise the serratia had the sneaking suspicion they didn't quite belong here. The grub was great, but everyone kept giving them funny looks...

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2: EVOLVE.
Maybe it was born with it, maybe it was a new spike protein... Whatever it was, this virus was going places!

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1: SYMBIOSIS.
Namasté, friend. If you scratch my chemoreceptor arrays, I'll scratch yours? Nirvana awaits!

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Draft ver. shows the station's base - the food surrounding the wrapped up birb are microbead cushions

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If Pyroko is a microbe

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For International Microorganism Day, some artwork created by my microbiology class...

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and a leorina microbe commission! fun excuse to draw my childhood crush 😭

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Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration in the Omics Age, edited by Madeleine van Oppen & Manuel Aranda , is online! Madeleine and I contributed a chapter on increasing coral thermal tolerance via microbe manipulation - https://t.co/wSesj8liKH

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Microbe containment breach 🦠

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