This model was created from a 3D scan of a living bacterial colony biofilm.

Winner of a 2017 FASEB BioArt award and displayed in stainless steel at the World in a Drop exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. 

 

The species is Bacillus licheniformis, grown on biofilm inducing medium.

The real-size diameter of the colony is 17 mm. 

 

More information at:

- http://www.faseb.org/Resources-for-the-Public/Scientific-Contests/BioArt/Past-Winners/2017-BioArt-Winners.aspx

- https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2018/09/27/a-microbial-work-of-art/

- https://www.scottchimileskiphotography.com/

- https://hmnh.harvard.edu/world-drop-photographic-explorations-microbial-life

 

Credit: Scott Chimileski, Nick Lyons and Roberto Kolter, Harvard Medical School

 

This model has been shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License.

 

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*NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE OR RESALE*

 

*NOT FOR MODIFICATION or use in public exhibitions* without written consent from Scott Chimileski.