Painting a Bacteria Bevo

BY Anna Daugherty in TXEX Fan Mail on July 1, 2015

What can you do with orange bacteria? Make Bevo, of course! Julie Fogarty, BS '13, Life Member, is working with the bacteria in a class at Stanford that she is a teaching assistant for as part of her graduate school program.

The figure is made with E. coli that over-expresses the mOrange protein. There are several different colored versions of the bacteria, but Fogarty had to use the orange one to paint a Bevo.