The Blekhman lab had a great time at Market Science this year! We grew bacteria from people’s fingerprints on LB-agar plates and took pictures after 3 days of growth in our lab. A dog even participated – see section 6 on the plate labeled 6-7-8. If you fingerprinted a plate, check the number on the handout we gave you to see what kinds of microbes are growing on your hands!
To see more examples of growing bacteria on plates, check out our pictures from last year’s Market Science event here: https://marketsci.org/2017/06/16/your-microbiome/.
