Dumb thought I had today

I would pick s. aureus because gold, and because mrsa is kind of badass

Hey yall,

I popped open the lid of my body butter (think short squat wide jar with wide mouth so whole surface of contents visible when open) to moisturize my pitiful cloven hands and found some yellow-orange clusters. NO I did not take a picture bc I was in a rush and didn't have my phone on me at the time (😫) BUT to describe: at first I thought "when did I have orange sugar cookie sprinkles on my fingers? Or Cheetos dust??" Because that was what it looked like at first glance. It was on either side of a "scoop" dent in the surface of the white body butter. Upon closer inspection, there were more dense clumps in certain spots and then a few outliers here and there (and in two other locations of surface of body butter). Color was a tangerine-y orange-yellow? No appreciable odor I could detect over the pretty mild scent of product. It is a more natural product with no preservatives in it. I then noticed there was a decent bit of condensation in the flipped-open lid, which I've not noticed before in the couple of years I've been using this product. Recently my hands have gotten especially dry as we've moved in to crud season (ER nurse) so I moved this container to keep it on the kitchen island by the sink to remind myself to moisturize more, but I'm a very tactile-sensitive person and I don't recall ever having put lotion on hands that were not freshly washed or very "clean" (recently washed with soap) at minimum. Google says Chryseobacterium overwhelmingly when I described what I saw in the search bar. I wish my microbiology class weren't so far back in my history... what say you? What do yall think it was?

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Hi! I work in shelter veterinary medicine and need help identifying what species this is. Pt is a 4yo mixed breed dog who presented with hair loss along spine, skin was thickened but smooth. DTM was collected on 10/16. Pictures of microscopic findings are on 10x and 40x. With ringworm we usually (or only ever) see M. Canis, M. Gypseum, or Trichophyton spp, haven’t seen this one before. Leaning towards Trichophyton, if anything. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

EDIT: Thank you for the responses! At this time the patient still is just having the same symptoms as listed above (hair loss, thickened skin, don’t have an update besides that), what potential treatment would be indicated in this situation?

Found in a slide of freshwater diatoms. I’m under the impression it’s just another diatom, but does anybody know anything about it, or its name? (Understandably a low effort question, as there’s too many to name.)

I’ve been fascinated with it since I’ve seen it… I also wonder if it may just be a few that happened to stack on each other?

Any ideas?

Some pictures are too similar! I know how but when i see images i get it wrong a lot

I have ordered Lactobacillus strains from ATCC. It shows the medium which needs to used is Nutrient Agar however usually, we use MRS agar to grow Lactobacillus species. Also, it has been mentioned, grow it in under anaerobic conditions. I don't have anaerobic jar, shall I grow it in the normal incubator at 30 degree Celsius? Also, how to revive the cells, should I grow it in inoculate it on the broth and agar at the same time or first grow in the broth and after confirming the growth, should I inoculate it on the MRS agar?

Hii, I have purchased strains from ATCC and it has to be grown in 30 degrees Celsius. One strain needs to be grown under aerobic conditions and another one needs to be grown under anaerobic conditions. I have a static incubator whose temperature is 37 degrees and a shaker incorporated with the incubator where the temperature can be adjusted. So, how am I supposed to grow both the strains? Should I keep both the strains in shaker? I have an anaerobiv jar but can I keep the broth in it? cause, I have seen people using it only for the plates.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666517426001343

Hi, I’m just an ordinary student taking an introductory microbiology class so I’m no expert on the subject. I’m just posting here cause I’m more likely to get an answer to my curiosity.I was just wondering, what the top part of this RODAC plate shows? It doesn’t look like the other bacterial colonies and I had thought it to be fungi or mold but idk and my google search was kind of unsuccessful. My TA didn’t tell me what it was, but she said it looked cool lol

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666517426001318

Hi, so I am starting some new research into microbial populations, and how they evolve when treated with antibiotics. Specifically at the population size. I am needing to learn more about the hill equation. However most of what I'm finding on youtube is very surface level, and memorization instead of math based. It also focuses mainly on enzyme kinetics rather than this application. Can anyone recommend good textbooks on this, or other sources?

Thank you!

to those who have made it to the other side, what was it really like to get into the programs here? what does it take to get a chance?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666517426001331

Hi everyone!

A while ago I shared two posts here about a microscope simulator I was building, and the response honestly blew me away. Thank you so much to everyone who commented, asked questions, corrected my biology and encouraged me to keep going. That feedback shaped a lot of what the project is today.

Open Microcosm 0.1.0 is now public and free

https://github.com/Xooter/Open-Microcosm

Downloads for Windows and Linux are on the Releases page. Just unzip and run, nothing to install.

Where I'd like this to go

I want Open Microcosm to become a genuinely useful tool for the community. Not only something that helps students see what happens under the microscope, but something that in the future can emulate much more complex things.

But that depends on the community collaborating and steering it in the right direction. It's a shared decision, not just the creator's. I truly hope this tool can live up to what people need, and I'd love for you to be part of shaping it: suggest organisms or experiments, check the biology, report bugs, translate, or contribute code or data (no programming needed to add beings, they're plain TOML files).

Thanks again for all the support. I'm really excited to see what we can build together

PD: I promised some of you I'd let you know when it was ready, so here it is: u/ZAZAromyces, u/AdvanceWest2880, u/anonpotat0, u/PracticalShine3365, u/jimbo__o, u/backroom_mushroom, this is for you

I'm confused please someone tell me

Hello everyone so I’m graduating with a bs in microbiology this semester and I’m honestly lost I don’t know what to do in my next step, I’m currently based in Saudi Arabia and here we don’t have much biotc companies nor much research centres, so I have a few quite options
1- go abroad and get a masters degree in molecular biology or something else ( please advise me)
2- go for quality control as in food/ water
3- get into clinical laboratory and get into hospitals
I really love the research field and I enjoy it a lot and I really really want to study abroad and hopefully settle down out there someday so id really appreciate any help on what to pursue and what country do you advise me to study in

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What lovely species

rench health officials have reported what is believed to be the first documented human case of Shamonda virus after an immunocompromised patient died earlier this month.

The virus, which is typically found in livestock and transmitted by biting midges, was previously thought to be non-transmissible to humans.

According to French authorities, investigators believe the patient may have contracted the virus through an insect bite in eastern France, where the virus had already been detected in animals.

Officials stressed that the case appears to be exceptional and say there is currently no evidence of a wider public health risk.

The virus has previously been detected in cattle, sheep, goats and horses, and was first identified in Nigeria in the 1960s. It was only detected in Europe this year.

Isolated from a fungal culture of an anus

Hi everyone! I’m just another student looking for answers about their unknown project. I don’t have a way to take a picture of my slide, but I’m absolutely stumped whether my bacteria shape is just a short bacilli or coccobacilli. I don’t know how to differentiate and it seems like there’s no way to do so. I am very confident that they are single arrangement, gram-negative, and do not form endospores.

Does anyone have any helpful advice on figuring out the shape? The only thing leading me toward just saying they are bacilli is that there are FEW rods that are slightly longer and look more classic bacilli. But most of them are just stubby rods. I have done many simple stains all fresh to ensure the shape hasn’t been distorted by age. They all show me the same results. What would you do?

Thank you!

I wanted to share a free tool I made where you can switch on and off resistance mechanisms for specific pathogens (e.g. Staph aureus Penicillinase or PBP2a for MRSA) and see how it affects the susceptibility testing. There are also learning paths if you want to dive deeper into certain organisms. The site is calles abxatlas. Happy to hear what you think!