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.