Bacterial Flowers

Tsimring, Lev; Xiong, Liyang (2022). Bacterial Flowers. In Art of Science. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0H995CM

Caption: When two very different strains of bacteria grow together, something miraculous happens
Participant category: Faculty/Project Scientist
Department: BioCircuits Institute at UC San Diego

Diverse interactions among species within bacterial colonies lead to intricate spatiotemporal dynamics (ways they move through space and time), which can affect their growth and survival. These images show some of the complex structures that we discovered when we mixed together motile bacteria, Acinetobacter baylyi, and non-motile, Escherichia coli, and allowed them to grow on a soft agar surface for 24 hours or more starting from a little drop in the center of a Petri dish.

• 2022-05-04

• 2022

• Tsimring, Lev

• Xiong, Liyang

• Art of Science Contest - 2022

• Acinetobacter baylyi
• Escherichia coli

• Art and science
• Bacteria

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Doi: https://doi.org/10.6075/J0H995CM

Primary associated publication

• L. Xiong, Y. Cao, R . Cooper, W.J. Rappel, J. Hasty, L. Tsimring. Flower-like patterns in multi-species bacterial colonies. eLife, 9: 48885 (2020). https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.48885

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• BioCircuits Institute at UC San Diego (synbio.ucsd.edu/)

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• Tsimring, Lev; Xiong, Liyang

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