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Happy Birth­day To Us

'tis the 2nd of De­cem­ber...

...and to­day we cel­e­brate the sev­enth an­niver­sary of this blog.  In blog years (some­thing anal­o­gous to dog years), that's quite a stretch of time. It's been great fun (and con­sid­er­able work). The STC team thanks all who have con­tributed by writ­ing ar­ti­cles, com­ment­ing, and vis­it­ing.

A trans­verse sec­tion of Chlorochro­matium (fea­tured here in STC). The cen­tral cell is the motile anaer­o­bic het­erotroph, the seven at­tached to it the green sul­fur bac­te­ria. Bar = 0.5 µm. Source

 

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Shaun Brinsmade
12 years ago

Happy birth­day STC! Best wishes from George­town Uni­ver­sity for many more years of fun mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy.

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Laure
12 years ago

Happy birth­day, and long live Small Things Con­sid­ered!

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