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Saccharomyces cerevisiae-Ascomycetes
This is the traditional yeast that makes beer, wine, other alcoholic drinks and bread. Is a unicelular organism that lives in colonies of multiple clones. Images in green have particular proteins within the yeast tagged with a fluorescent green protein. The picture after shows colonies growing in a petri dish. The picture in blue shows calcofluor staining to see the bud scars that mother cells have when the daughter cells separate from them.
Laboratories and industries. In nature can be found in berries like grapes and flowers.
Microscopy pictures made with a fluorescent microscope in laboratories where I worked over the years.
Spotted on Jun 8, 2011
Submitted on Jun 8, 2011
5 Comments
Thanks!
What an interesting field of work!
COOL...
Hehee..the model organism of one scientist may be the annoying contaminant for another scientist :-)
for people growing Drosophilas (fruit fly) yeast is food for their babies :-)
anyway, I saw some people asking for microscopy pictures so I decided post a few from my daily life experiments :-)
Cool to see a unicellular organism on Noah Marta! Yeasts are fascinating. Still, I used to grow amphibian and mammalian cells and did not like to see yeasts in my Petri dishes!