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 analyzed the microbial colonization on a historic easel painting. 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/
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/
Antoine Dore, "The Hunt for a Healthy Microbiome."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00193-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00193-3
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
https://balbussotwins.myportfolio.com/graphic-style-a-gut-feeling-medical-article