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What’s Special About
Bacteria?Matthew Baker
Diarrhea and Dödgy Döners
1µm
A self assembling motor, composed of 45 proteins, that can rotate at up to 40,000 rpm, and switch direction of rotation in 10ms.
Bacteria
• Everywhere: 10 times as many bacterial cells in the gut as there are human cells
ThanksAnimations: Keichi Namba Lab, Osaka Uni
Photos: Brett Tully: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brett-tully/
Doners: Bodrum Kebab, 242 Cowley Road
Sperm:E. Coli: Howard Berg’s Lab, Harvard.http://www.rowland.org/labs/bacteria/
Human Flora:Bajzer, M and Seeley, R.Nature 444, 1009-1010
Different bacteria TEM: Wikicommons
Aaron and Karen: BBCwww.phatmattbaker.com