Proteus Naked

[Bob_B]

Proteus Naked

I spent my professional career as a molecular microbiologist exploring a fascinating bacterium that you see in this post: Proteus mirabilis. I’ll spare you the details, but what makes this bug so cool is that it ‘knows’ when it is on a surface or in highly viscous surroundings, and when it senses this, it changes its shape to adapt to the new environment and becomes very long and covered with hundreds of newly formed flagella that propel it over or through the milieu.

I wanted to “dress up” a couple of electron micrographs of this bacterium to retain some science but inject a fair amount of art. The results are shown below. Thanks for viewing.

[francois]

Very strange creatures but there's a fascinating aspect about these shots.  Thanks for the information, it's very interesting.
Bravo.

[Bob_B]

I'm so happy you like them, Francois. (You seem to be the only one with any opinions.)

[David Eckels]

Having seen some EM work in my day, I didn't think to critique them because I'm not qualified. To have resolved the flagella/fimbriae seems to me spectacular. I'm not sure I'd want them hanging on my wall, however, considering the source Cool and unusual for these pages.
PS I think you succeeded well in "dressing them up."

[francois]

I'm so happy you like them, Francois. (You seem to be the only one with any opinions.)

I find them inspiring and they tickle my imagination ;-)

[Bob_B]

Having seen some EM work in my day, I didn't think to critique them because I'm not qualified. To have resolved the flagella/fimbriae seems to me spectacular. I'm not sure I'd want them hanging on my wall, however, considering the source Cool and unusual for these pages.
PS I think you succeeded well in "dressing them up."

Thanks, David. For the record, one of them is used in several microbio text books, and has been republished in journals multiple times, and (I'm sure you can appreciate this) it does hang on one of my walls. LOL.

[Bob_B]

I find them inspiring and they tickle my imagination ;-)

That was my goal, so thank you, Francois.

[David Eckels]

Thanks, David. For the record, one of them is used in several microbio text books, and has been republished in journals multiple times, and (I'm sure you can appreciate this) it does hang on one of my walls. LOL.

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