BLAST Meeting 2020
In 2020, I was invited to the Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction (BLAST) Meeting as a featured science artist. The designs I created reflected the take-home messages of the very exciting research presented by the attendees over the course of the meeting.
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![Cartoon bacteria with sharp teeth and white eyes bouncing off a pink and white background.]()
Emma Brock - "A view to a kill: using holographic microscopy to study motility in predatory bacteria Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus."
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![A green bacterium in a trench coat and hat covertly sharing plasmid DNA with nearby pink bacteria without other far away green bacteria noticing anything.]()
Avigdor Eldar - "Short-range quorum sensing controls horizontal gene transfer at micron scale in bacterial communities."
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![Two proteins dressed as firemen riding a bacterial firetruck. One loses its head, so the other has to compensate and do both of their jobs.]()
Davi Ortega - "Investigating the co-evolution of flagellar motors and chemosensory systems in gamma-proteobacteria."
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![A bacterium taking three different shapes depending upon where it falls along a red gradient of the protein CcfM (bottom): the left bacterium is too curled, the right bacterium is too elongated, and the central bacterium is perfectly spiraled.]()
Daniel Pfeiffer - "The positioning of magnetic organelles is coupled to cell shape control for most efficient locomotion of magnetotactic bacteria."
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![Image of older man (Howard Berg) wearing glasses and a collared shirt. He is dreaming about bacteria with glowing flagella swimming about on a black background.]()
Howard Berg - Keynote
