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Microbial Art is alive!
I am happy to report that my latest distraction project is now live!
Visit www.microbialart.com for lots of intriguing artworks created using living microorganisms.
Microbe art rocks.
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Some more creations by students in my lab:
![Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx](http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/wp-content/uploads/Archaeopteryx1-480x462-custom.jpg)
Archaeopteryx
![Galapagos Galapagos Islands](http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/wp-content/uploads/Galapagos1-517x500-custom.jpg)
Galapagos Islands
![Skull Skull](http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/wp-content/uploads/Skull-298x300.jpg)
Skull
![Primates1 Primate phylogeny](http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/wp-content/uploads/Primates1-488x373-custom.jpg)
Primate phylogeny
More microbial art.
As I mentioned in my previous post, my students and I have been experimenting with creating art from living colonies of bacteria:
![](http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/images/albums/EvolArt/08-Lucy.jpg)
I don’t think this is a common art form (though it’s one I want to explore in more detail down the road), but I am aware of a few other very intriguing examples of similar things. For example, here are some of the stunning bacteria images by Dr. Eshel Ben-Jacob:
![](http://star.tau.ac.il/~eshel/pics/images/The_Night.jpg)
See more of Dr. Ben-Jacob’s artwork.
And here are some using fungi and bacteria by Dr. Niall Hamilton:
![](http://ilovebacteria.com/Images/moon.png)
See more of Dr. Hamilton’s artwork.
And, of course, this famous image by Dr. Roger Tsien, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on green fluorescent protein:
![](http://www.tsienlab.ucsd.edu/HTML/Images/IMAGE%20-%20PLATE%20-%20Beach.jpg)
Or these reconstructed ancestral coral pigments spliced into bacteria by Dr. Mikhail Maltz:
![zse0340428030001 zse0340428030001](http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/wp-content/uploads/zse0340428030001.jpg)
And some “photography” with genetically engineered bacteria by Dr. Chris Voigt:
![dish dish](http://www.genomicron.evolverzone.com/wp-content/uploads/dish.jpg)
In addition to working with actual bacteria and fungi, there are amazing works of art that depict microbes, such as the bacteria and viruses by Luke Jerram:
![](http://www.lukejerram.com/sites/lukejerram/files/system/project_images/ecoli_lukejerram.jpg)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhWgq8622Mw[/youtube]
See more Glass Microbiology by Luke Jerram.
If you know of other examples of microbial art, please share.