Thread by @wolfbachia, I'm TAing for @tjsharpton's Human Microbiome course this term. I'm grading an [...]

I'm TAing for @tjsharpton's Human Microbiome course this term. I'm grading an assignment where the students found "an artistic medium that represents - even if in a very abstract or remote way - some aspect of microbiome". This was the most fun assignment to grade!

I thought I would share some of their incredible finds:

Every work of art has its own microbiome. Most could use a probiotic.
Italian scientists analyzed the microbial colonization on a historic easel painting. https://www.popsci.com/art-microbiome-decay-probiotic/

Every work of art has its own microbiome. Most could use a probiotic.

Italian scientists performed one of the first analyses of microbial colonization on a 17th century painting. The artwork’s microbiome could be responsible for troublesome decay.

https://www.popsci.com/art-microbiome-decay-probiotic/

Art Made With Kombucha Explores the Science of the Microbiome https://www.labiotech.eu/bioart/kombucha-microbiome-bioart-alanna-lynch/

Art Made With Kombucha Explores the Science of the Microbiome

Artist Alanna Lynch uses kombucha as an art medium to explore our relationship with the microbiome, which is now in the spotlight of human health.

https://www.labiotech.eu/bioart/kombucha-microbiome-bioart-alanna-lynch/

Artist reimagines the human microbiome as an intricately cut paper coral reef https://www.designboom.com/art/artist-reimagines-human-microbiome-intricately-cut-paper-coral-reef-rogan-brown-06-25-2018/

artist reimagines the human microbiome as an intricately cut paper coral reef

https://www.designboom.com/art/artist-reimagines-human-microbiome-intricately-cut-paper-coral-reef-rogan-brown-06-25-2018/

Microbial Me is an on-going art and science project made up of a series of sculptures in agar, and swabs from the surface of skin, to make the invisible world visible. https://www.mellissafisher.com/

Bioart | United Kingdom | Mellissa Fisher Artist

Bio Artist based in the UK, making agar sculptures with bacteria and various works with living organisms, exploring the cross pollination of Art & Science.

https://www.mellissafisher.com/

Antoine Dore, "The Hunt for a Healthy Microbiome."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00193-3

Gaby D'allesandro, "The Garden in Your Gut"

http://www.gabydalessandro.com/gardeninyourgut/

François-Joseph Lapointe: microbiome "selfies" using sample data sequenced from his own microbiome.

Balbusso twins, "A gut feeling"

https://balbussotwins.myportfolio.com/graphic-style-a-gut-feeling-medical-article

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