Pictures Considered #18 by Elio — The journal 'Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde u. Infektionskrankheiten' was one of the leading publication in the early days of Microbiology. Many of the great discoveries of microbial pathogens were published therein. An example is the 1898 Japanese microbiologist Kiyoshi Shiga account of his discovery of his eponymous bacterium…
Pictures Considered #65 by Roberto — Some years ago, when Scott Chimileski wrote 'Life at the Edge of Sight', we wanted to present two images that displayed emergent properties of organisms expressing collective behavior. We came up with this pair of photographs, whose scales differ by seven orders of magnitude.
Pictures Considered #64 by Roberto — It used to be that, when I closed my eyes and thought back, searching for a defining moment that sparked my life-long passion for molecular biology, this image came vividly to mind. Most memories lie buried, coming back only mysteriously, and often without cue. This one, though, is clear.
Pictures Considered #63 by Christoph — It is boring to look at swarm-hunting Myxococcus bacteria in still images, you don't get any impression of their speedy efficacy. Therefore this is, again, not a "pictures" considered here, but a time‑lapse recording as video clip.
Pictures Considered #62 by Roberto — In the phage universe, there are many examples of so-called satellite phages (or satellite phage-like elements) whose propagation depends on helper phages. Outside the bacterial cell these satellites look like phages, but...
Pictures Considered #61 by Christoph — The last thirty years have been an "eye-opening" journey for microbial cell biologists, quite literally. I am, of course, talking about fluorescent labeling of individual cell components and the non‑invasive observation of their "behavior" in living bacterial cells. Just recently, I considered a video clip about Vibrio cholerae harpooning DNA. Now again a video clip, about...
