Thread by @microbiale

Hola! my name is Ale (they/she) and I'm taking part in the #GlobalScienceShow
Today I'll be showing you some of my works about my exploration of the microbial world with drawings! 🦠
Check @GlobalSciShow to follow the whole show🤩

#scicomm #divulgarciencia #comunicacienciachile

I did my PhD in marine #microbiology and now I draw #scicomm comics/zines and cartoons (and a tiny bit of animations) in Spanish&English, to highlight the diversity of the microbial world 🦠and people in STEM✨,
including #queerinstem #bipocinstem
Here a bio-reel👇🏾

The big majority of planet is microscopic and they have a key role in the ecosystem, biogeochemical cycles and evolution of living organisms! 🦠
Our microbial world is huge and amazing!🤩

How to you research it?
You can use model organisms to test different hypothesis or characterize their functions and apply that knowledge in other (micro)organisms. Much of our knowledge in biology and genetics are coming from these tiny pals🧬🧫🧪

#microbiology #scicomm

#Microscopy helped us to "see" in greater detail this microbial world. The microbes can spread all around the world, bilding their home in everysurface, even plastic!
Inspired by the biofilms formed in microplastic, I drew with inks some pictures of them
🌐microbiale.net/biofilms/

To study their genetic information also give us new insights about their posible capabilities🧬
After the publication of my first -first author- paper, I did a comic about marine phages, which you can check and download here: microbiale.net/microworld/com… ✨

The @MolEcol_MPIMM at the @MarineMicrobio is doing great research of the microbial world and I created a mural about it!
The official press release mpi-bremen.de/en/Fascination…

📹timelapse
🎙️about the process

📷K. Matthes

Uff there's so much about this microbial world! and my favorite pal to tell microbial stories is Mic Robio, a little bacterium with big adventures 🦠
More details about this project 🌐 microbiale.net/mic-robio/

Although most of microorganisms are harmless for us, some of them are pathogenic! and this has been specially important this and last year😷
It's key to get reliable information about COVID19, so I'm also collecting that info in zines and other drawings
microbiale.net/coronacomics/

And other pathogens didn't stop in this time 🤒
So, if you get ill and must take antibiotics, please follow the treatment as recommended by your medical doctor! 💊
Here a comic about this👇🏾

But remember that most of microbes aren't dangerous to us, we cannot live w/o them!
Almost a half of our cells're actually #microorganisms that live w/us!
We can say:
We are a ecosystem!✨
That's actually the title of the exhibition I'm working atm & will be online this 2021!🤫

✨Thank you for reading!
I hope you enjoyed and if you wanna explore more! check my website 🌐microbiale.net, full of drawings online and to download💜

And check #GlobalScienceShow, now @aomholmes is coming with Science of Pottery!🤩

My apologies, I dunno why the color was looking so weird, but here's the ilustration of Mic Robio in the Atacama desert🏜️