Drawing with Colorful Bacteria and Watching Bacteria Swim
Visitors will be shown how to streak a nonpathogenic bacteria sample onto an agar plate and can draw a picture or write their name with the streaking stick. The bacteria we use is fluorescent, so after the event we will grow the streaked plates in an incubator. They will glow under a special light, and we will take pictures of each visitor's plate (which we will keep track of with a Google Form) and email the artwork to the visitor. We will also show swimming bacteria to visitors either under a
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Biodesign InstituteThe Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University delivers the future of nature-inspired scientific innovation today for the betterment of human health, community safety and global sustainability.
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