Lab Talks: Collaborating underwater
Did you know that the Great Barrier Reef exists thanks to microbes? Marine organisms like corals and sponges feed with the help of photosynthesizing microbes. This is a symbiosis where the microbes produce nutrients for the coral and sponges. But microbes collaborate in many more remarkable ways with underwater life.
This month, the lab techswill tell much more about these remarkable collaborations underwater during the daily 'lab talks' at ARTIS-Micropia.
When | every day |
Where | in front of the lab |
What time | 1 pm and 4 pm |
Microbe of the Month March
Throughout the month of March, the cyanobacterium Hormoscilla spongeliae takes the spotlight. This cyanobacterium is found in sponges all over the world. It is a filamentous cyanobacterium, essentially a kind of 'thread' of bacterial cells. As a result, this cyanobacterium looks a bit like a worm.
Would you like to see a filamentous cyanobacterium in real life? Come to ARTIS-Micropia in March and admire it under the microscope next to the laboratory.