A record of the Project Micro event

held in the Bell Museum March 21st 1998
as part of their Science Fest

I found out ...	I saw ...	I wonder ...	I thought ...	I'd like to see ...
I like to look at my fingerprints	my fingerprints they were cool	what it's like to be one of the little critters	The small shells were great	Snake skin
what kind of worm lives underwater	A baby worm	what the critters eat	the algae was COOL !	a wombat
where the shoe came from	fabric close up	if I turn into a critter	my fingerprint was awesome
		what a snake skin looks like
		if dirt is alive

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 cellsin living animals.

The scale is approximately 95x life size.

A Annie's nematode	B Payton's eyelash	C Phil's nematode
D Alasdair's nematode	E George's nematode	F Carolynn Robideaux
G Gabby's nematode	H Heather's nematode	I Hans's nematode
J patrick's nematode	K Maximo's nematode	L Ken's nematode eggs
M Naomi's nematode	N James's nematode	O Matthew's nematode
P no man, but a worm	Q Brian's nematode	R Jimmy's nematode
S Al's spirogyra	T Algo's spirogyra	U Andrew's Spirogyra
V Jenn & Preeya's leech	W Mark's Spirogyra	X Andrew's2 nematode
Y James 2's nematode

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