There are only a few groups of bacteria that do this kind of gliding, but they’re found across a plethora of environments, including ponds, soil, and, surprise, in our own mouths.

From trumpets and spirals to floral arrangements, single cell organisms take on many strange and unique shapes. But they don't look like that just for fun, their shapes can help them with movement, hunting, and even defending themselves.

Lab Exercise 1: Introduction to Microbiology

Your Screen Is Covered In Human Blood

The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos

Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors

How to Survive the Microcosmos

Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes

Some Eggs Don't Need Sperm to Make Babies

If you were a protozoan, how would you zoom zoom zoom all around the microcosmos? From false feet to microtubules, find out how these single-celled eukaryotes make their way through the universe.

Microbiology: Phenylethyl Alcohol (PEA) Agar

Yes, they might eat your brain, but there's a lot more to amoebas than that!

Microbiology: Motility Test

Let's dive into the branching weirdness of the pulsating slime molds!

Strange Stentor Stories

Microbiology: Methyl Red Test

As we have come to understand in this series, the most devastating diseases to ever plague mankind have been the cause of pathogenic organisms. Although strategies had been developed to combat some of these diseases, it was not until the...

Outbreak investigation and control are an important part of public health and global health work. Epidemic and outbreaks of infectious disease require a robust response that includes investigating the epidemiology, laboratory (or...

Rotifers don’t really get a lot of love when it comes to microscopic animals. At least as far as the public imagination goes, the rotifer is overshadowed by its fellow metazoan of the microcosmos: the tardigrade. And we might be part of...

This video covers:<br/>
1) What are Acid-fast<br/> organisms?
2) Two genera <br/>of Acid-fast orga<br/>nisms
3) How staining is done
4) Interpreting M<br/>icroscope Image (Acid-fast vs non-Acid-fast)

After over three years of searching for it, our Master of Microscopes has found a Spirostomum semivirescens!

On this week's journey, we explore the ways things eat in the microcosmos, from Stentors filter feeding to Dileptus hunting down and absorbing its prey.

Desmids The Symmetrical Algae That's Full of Crystals

This video covers the hemolysis test, which is done on blood agar. We will discuss both the results and theory underlying the hemolysis test.