Bacteria Gallery
Many of the bacteria species our lab researches naturally form intricate patterns on petri dishes under certain conditions. This occurs as bacteria swim and swarm across a surface, communicating and competing with one another for resources. In addition to our scientific research on bacteria pattern formation, our laboratory make artworks that explore the controlled and chaotic forms of the microbial world. One of these projects, Microuniverse, has been exhibited in many venues such as the Liberty Science Center (New Jersey) as part of the Microbes Rule! exhibit. Our work was recently collected in a book, Beautiful Bacteria, published by Rizzoli-Electa and reviewed in the New York Times.
Work led by Soonhee Moon, Julia Kirby
