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  • Sunday, November 12, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Microbes Mini-Festival

    Sunday, November 12, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Microbes Mini-Festival

    Join Harvard Museum of Natural History educators, Harvard researchers, and the Art+Bio Collaborative on Sunday, November 12 from 1 – 4 to investigate the world of microbes through observation, stories, and art explorations. Try hands-on activities, observe real microbes hiding in unexpected places, and learn about their role in our lives. Explore the new HMNH exhibit, World in a Drop: Photographic Explorations of Microbial Life, and leave with new perspectives.

    World in a Drop explores the minuscule ecosystem within a single drop of water, home to an astonishing diversity of organisms busily living out their lives and interconnected by myriad complex relationships. The photographic exhibit  is an aesthetic journey into this microbial world, as revealed through cutting-edge imaging technologies. With expertly executed photography, videography, and poetic narration, Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter capture the intrinsic beauty of a mysterious world that is seldom recognized. Special Event. Regular museum admission rates apply. Free parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.

  • Thursday, October 19, 6:00 pm – Wonders of the Microbial World

    Scott Chimileski, Microbiologist and Photographer, Kolter Lab, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University Roberto Kolter, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University will lecture on Thursday, October 19, at 6:00pm in the Geologic Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge.

    In this lecture, Scott and Roberto will share their fascination with the wonders of the microbial world through vignettes and images from their new book, Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World. Their presentation will feature a stunning visual exploration of microbes, from the pioneering findings of a seventeenth-century visionary to magnificent close-ups of the inner workings and cooperative communities of Earth’s most prolific—but often invisible—organisms.

    Free and open to the public. Copies of their book will be available for purchase and signing.  Free parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.

    Related exhibition: World in a Drop: Photographic Explorations of Microbial Life, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, now through January 7, 2018.