Once more we were happy to join the rest of our colleagues from the University of Cádiz on an activity organised by the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of our university within the framework of the European Researcher’s Night. This time we set up camp in the old town of Cadiz with all our gear. Microphytobenthos and oxygen microsensors, Winogradsky columns, fiddler crabs, Nereis worms, and our own hand-made bacteria. We also had lots of plasticine for the kids to create their own bacteria in Petri dishes and pencils for them to draw our “Secret life in the sediment drawing”. Until next time.

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Our plasticine microphytobenthos Petri dish… (microorganisms not in scale obviously!)

Sokratis explains the content of our workshop in this promotional video (in Spanish)

You can see more pictures here and our own pictures here.

The last research paper on bacteria degrading extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) produced by microalgae, published recently in Frontiers in Microbiology by our group in collaboration with researchers from the University of Essex, has attracted the attention of the media. In a small report, our PhD student Julio Bohórquez explains (in spanish) what the more relevant findings of this study are.

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