2015 Photomicrography Competition

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2nd Place

2015 Photomicrography Competition

Mouse colon colonized with human microbiota

Kristen Earle Gabriel Billings , KC Huang , Justin Sonnenburg

Affiliation
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford, California, USA
Technique
Confocal
Magnifaction
63

Mouse colon colonized with human microbiota. The colon houses a dense community of bacteria (red) which are segregated from the colon tissue (blue nuclei) by a layer of mucus (green). Some members of the most abundant phyla, Firmicutes (yellow) and Bacteroidetes (fuschia), are highlighted here.