A record of the Project Micro event

held in the Bell Museum May 3rd 1997
as part of their Science Fest

I liked ...	I saw ...	I wonder ...
the nematode	Leeches	where my son is
the Cyclops	cool stuff

Here are a few pictures that were digitally captured by some of our visitors.

They are almost all of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), which are small bacteria-eating soil nematodes. Because they are transparent, we can watch them develop, and so we use them to study how animals change from being a single cell embryo to a complex adult.

These worms have been "engineered" so that they make a green fluorescent protein (GFP) normally found in jellyfish. The stripes are epidermal (skin) cells that express this GFP. By making the worms express this GFP, we can study epidermal cells in living animals.

The scale is approximately 95x life size.

Andy	Arthur	Chris
Chrissy	Debbie	Eleanor
Erik	Jessica	Josh
Liz	Tom	The Nematode

Some images of the participants (young and not-so-young) can be found on the images page