Microbial art for the holidays from the J. Craig Venter Institute

Saw this Tweet on Christmas Day

@phylogenomics @hyphaltip Check it out! X-mass greetings from fungi and bacteria. laboiteverte.fr/des-champignon…
— Russell Neches (@ryneches) December 25, 2012

//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js It was from Russell Neches, a PhD student in my lab.

Went to the site “La boite verte” and checked out their post “Des champignons de Noël.”

Discovered it was based on a post from none other than the J. Craig Venter Institute’s blog: Holiday Art” JCVI Blog. The post is by Stephanie Mounaud from December 2010 and it has three wonderful fungal art forms. I am embedding the images of them below:

Fungal Christmas Tree

Fungal Snowman

Fungal Christmas Tree2

Enjoy.

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis View all posts by Jonathan Eisen