Under My Thumb

By rachelm, March 2, 2012 at 3:25pm
At the January OMSI After Dark, more than 40 people gave us their thumbprints (and their bacteria) to help grow a bacterial lawn. A bacterial lawn describes the appearance of bacterial colonies when all the individual colonies on a petri-dish merge together to form a field or mat of bacteria. What we hope to see is a patchwork of the different types of bacteria and fungi.
 
Here is a picture of ours in a large dish.
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"Oregon’s Summer Resident Gray Whales: Unleashing a Well-Kept Secret"

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"Penguins of Oregon"

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"Epigenetics: The Merger of Nature and Nurture"


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"Sweetspot for Biofuels"


Opportunities to realize the economic promise of locally produced biofuels rely on new technologies. Trillium FiberFuels, a local startup company with strong connections to Oregon State University, is working on techniques to generate ethanol from agricultural waste products. On the way to that goal, the company has found promising by-products that complement their interests and accomplishments in the cellulosic ethanol business.

Join us for National Engineering Week!

By events, February 18, 2012 at 12:39pm
The Foundation’s signature program, Engineers Week, celebrates the positive contributions engineers make to society and is a catalyst for outreach across the country to kids and adults alike. Engineers Week is part of many corporate and government cultures and is celebrated on every U.S. engineering college campus. During this week, OMSI will be featuring an engineering themed demo per day in the Vernier Technology Lab:

  • Jitterbugs
  • Wire Towers
  • Computer Guts
  • Snap Circuits
  • Scanning Electron Microscope 
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"The Icefish is a Nicefish: Evolutionary Mutant Models of Human Disease"

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"Lust, Chocolate and Prairie Voles: The Neuroscience of Pleasure and Love"

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"Nanotechnology: Unveiling the Big World of the Very Small"

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"I Dig Your Bones: Adventures in Forensic Anthropology"

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