Search for Meaning

The Course Biology as a New Art Medium

has the pleasure to invite you

to the opening of Search for Meaning

an Exhibition at the Noyce Science Center

(room 2220, outside room 0610 and outside

of the building on the North wall)

on Friday 26th at 4.15 pm.



Live Barrier

Gustavo Arambula







Kathryn Benson

This week is about more complex organisms like  worms, flies, fish, butterflies, rats and mice, humans, ect. The photos you see below are of the worm lab. We wanted to try and do a maze situation in that on one side (the o) we put food (bacteria) and on the other we put a repellent (glycerol) or nothing at all. THe experiments were a complete failure, but we still had lots of fun and learned a lot about C. Elegans.

This is DNA extraction day!

I took some plants from the campus gardens (uups!) and the students got to choose which plant or flower DNA they would like to extract and precipitate.

Some did better than others, but everyone tried really hard to get it right! And the reagents did make it harder to do it well, all because the extraction buffer had a "minor" problem...

This is biology guys! It almost always goes "not so well"! But so does art!

Can someone tell me what is that look all about?

Marta

Here are the more successful results of the germinating experiment.

The blue indicates that a flowering hormone was used and the white means that a root hormone was used.

I have to say though...

It is so nice to see plants grow!

Marta

Here is the plan for the second week. We did germinating of plants. The first challege was that we had to try to make the plants grow in not so usual recipients. The germination photos look great. But the results varied! 

Painting with serratia bacteria.

The previous experiment with these bacteria gave us an idea of what we might be able to do with the four colors we had, and so we planned for a final work each and here are most of the results. The image on the left is taken on the day we made them and the one on the right is taken 4/5 days later.