Optimal Tweezers

I was delighted to come across Microbial Art today, via Easternblot. It’s exactly what it sounds like–a group of biologists who enjoy experimenting with the aesthetic opportunities of cultured microbes. As, in my experience, these opportunities are fairly few in the course of their normal use–mostly they just smell funny and look like yellowish fuzz–I think it’s a worthy effort. (more…)

I was excited today to see that Science magazine followed up on its original Dance Your PhD contest with a second event: The Science Dance Match-Up Challenge. Each of the four winners of the original contest was asked to work with a choreographer to help them create a dance about a paper from the winner’s lab. One of these winners, Markita Landry, works for Yann Chemla–who did his postdoctoral research in my lab several years ago. (more…)