Day 7: Lichen culture-- part 2
Continuing from my previous post, the April22-plate 3 was really remarkable. Without much ado, here is a sampling of what I saw. Looking forward to your feedback and also can you identify the myste...
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Day 7: Lichen cultures
Continuing from my previous post, I am going to try and keep an eye on the succession of life in my lichen cultures. For this, I have 6 different lichens collected from different trees put into pet...
Read It Review ItLichen suspensions as growth media
For some time now, I have been completely bowled over with lichen suspensions (1,2,3). You never know what surprise you’d get. I suppose, it would be so for mosses too. All I do is to drop a liche...
Read It Review ItHelp me identify these ciliates and flagellates
Without much ado, here are 5 unicellular eukaryotes that were growing in my lichen suspensions. These emerged after almost 4 weeks. I took these videos at the beginning of the year, and only now f...
Read It Review ItThe secret about lice
On December the 6th I got lice on my head. I was curious to see what it was. So me and my Dad took two lice that I had on my head and put it under the Foldscope. I learned lots of new things about ...
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Whatever gets you through the night ‘salright, ‘salright…Don’t need a clock to waste your time oh no, oh no…Whatever gets you to the light ‘salright, ‘salright. ...
Read It Review ItFoldscoop 1:3. Long-term Lichen suspensions
Laziness is a good thing; sometimes. Previously I had posted on observing tardigrades, ciliates and nematodes (1, 2) in Lichens. It so happened that due to a hundred obstacles that life so often p...
Read It Review ItNew papers on Microbiology of the Built Environment, November 12, 2016
It’s been a couple of weeks since my last posts due to some work-related trips and changing jobs. Since last week, I am the new Science Editor at uBiome. So here is a longish post to catch up with ...
Read It Review ItNew papers on Microbiology of the Built Environment, October 21, 2016
Microbes indoors How do we make indoor environments and healthcare settings healthier? – Jack A. Gilbert – Microbial Biotechnology (OA) Microbial Biotechnology cover It is now well accepted that o...
Read It Review ItEcosystem networks and flux
Any species that we observe under a microscope is part of an ecological network that depends on resources and interactions with other species. Think of all the ecosystems we are so used to seeing a...
Read It Review ItBeating heart in the crustacean egg
Hello everyone, In my last post I’d shared the videos of the crustacean and its egg which I saw under my foldscope. Here’s another video of further developed egg in which you can see the organism h...
Read It Review ItNew papers on Microbiology of the Built Environment, October 1, 2016
Microbes in subways Bioaerosols in the Barcelona subway system – X. Triadó-Margarit – Indoor Air ($6 to rent, $38 to own) NMDS ordination analysis of communitysimilarities based on Bray-Curtis di...
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