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Bringing microbiology to CoCoMad '23 | @imibirmingham | @unibirmingham 🧫

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2 years
RT @ContamClub: Merry Noodlococcus Day!. We discovered Noodlococcus contaminating a plate in our lab 4 years ago today 🍜🧫 .
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2 years
If anyone has any more specific questions, we're happy to go into more detail!.
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2 years
We looked at four colonies from this snapshot under the microscope! .In colony 2 there are two types of cells - large purple and small pink. In colony 3, there are three types! The biggest purple cell in 3 is probably a yeast.
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2 years
Some of the weirdest looking colonies were probably made by different microbes growing together! .For example, plate 111 had some pinkish colonies that looked like neurons. When we tried to grow these on new plates, we only saw red circular colonies!
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2 years
Some colonies stand out from the rest!.We saw large "hairy" colonies on about half the CoCoMAD plates. These are probably a bacteria called Bacillus mycoides, which is common in the environment -
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2 years
You'll notice that colonies are different sizes - this can reflect the microbes that make them. For example, bacteria that can "swim" make large/flat/ expanding colonies, while bacteria that can't move make small colonies that are little piles of cells.
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2 years
We saw a lot of diversity on these plates!.This photo is a great snapshot. In just this small area, we can see at least 10 different colony types!.(Each structure is a colony).It’s hard to identify microbes from their colonies alone, but here's a thread of our thoughts:
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2 years
@Micro_Mad @IMIBirmingham These are awesome! Whilst I'm not expecting one for every plate, could we have a description of some of the things we can see?.
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2 years
All of the plates have been posted now 🧫 we really enjoyed all the marvellous microbes! Let us know what you think of your plates! πŸ”¬.
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2 years
and the final plate. 148!
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