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During the Summer of 1994, I was fortunate to be able to participate in the Microbial Diversity course offered by the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA . This was a long time dream of mine and the experience certainly lived up to my expectations. The was a great opportunity to immerse myself in microbiology for 6 1/2 weeks but also a great chance to make new friends and colleagues. The images on this page were taken during that class, by myself and several classmates (unfortunately, I don't recall who provided which pictures)
 
A photo of the MBL from across eel pond.
Our fearless instructors, 
John Breznak (left) and Marty Dworkin (right)
with course founder, Holger Jannasch (center).
Our first field trip to the 
Great Sippewissett Salt Marsh.

The cutout in the photo to the right reveals the colorful layers of a typical microbial mat community
The photo at the left shows the "berry ponds" which are due to several communities of various types of bacteria. The pink color is due to communities of purple sulfur bacteria which have formed granular berry-like structures. The green color is due to communities of cyanobacteria and algae. The fluffy white material is mainly large filamentous bacteria called Beggiatoa.

The "Volta Experiment"!
 
Both photos were taken form the same location.

 
The sacrifices we make 
in the name of science.
Hard at work in the lab?
The course T- shirt
(designed by Georg Jander)		 t-shirt design

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