Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy

Allow me to indulge my geeky side for a moment. These are electron microscopy photos I took in 2008 when I spent a month in the German lab. The first photo is a big pile of group A streptococci, the bacteria I was working with (or rather, working with it's protein), so I have a huge soft spot for this little bug. The second is a string of bugs entering a human epithelial cell through a caveolae - that little hole one of them is disappearing into. The protein I was working on was one of the ones that attach the bacteria to the human cell and then mediates internalisation, so it was really cool to get to see that actually happen.