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Final cover choice for The Small Guide to Small Things.

This is the one I went with. What do you think? It’s due out soon, currently collating reviews!

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One possible cover design for The Book

A Milestone. Thanks!

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New Jersey State Microbe T Shirts

Rutgers Ag Field Day is on April 28. Every red-blooded microbiologist and New Jersey Resident should head on over to the Biochemistry and Microbiology venue and get an official State Microbe T shirt.  Thanks to Professor Haggblom for cultivating these!

And, you know, you can get a Periodic Table of Microbes T shirt or coffee mug on https://www.cafepress.com/warholscience

New Jersey State Microbe Gains a Senate Sponsor

This is great news. It was made possible by the support we are getting from microbiologists and other scientists throughout the state (and the rest of the world!). Thank you!

The New bill numbers for 2018 are

Senate S1729

Assembly A3650

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Small Guide to Small Things

Another cover option for The Periodic Table of Microbes, The Small Guide to Small Things.

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100. Fm. Fusobacterium

You have to love a genus of bacteria with species names like necrophorum, necrogenes, mortiferum, pseudonecrophorum, ulcerans, and perfoetens.

If your Latin is rusty, here’s a hint: these organisms stink like death. The genus Fusobacterium is generally associated with death and decay, and if the host is not dead yet, some form of infection. While this is memorable, they are considered part of the normal oral flora of humans and animals when they are not creating stinky infections.

They are also good at building biofilms.

This is a Gram negative anaerobe.

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98.  Cf. Chloroflexus

Not the Latin name for The Incredible Hulk, Chloroflexus is an extremophile that lives in hot springs at around 140 Fahrenheit.

Only 2 species in the genus, so it’s a rare little beastie.

It is motile via gliding, at 0.04 microns per second, gee that’s slow. Photosynthetic, but in a unique way that is not like plants or green- or purple-sulfur bacteria. Hates oxygen. Actually a photoheterotroph, so it can snack on organic molecules. It changes color if grown in light vs dark environments.

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