Introduction
File:Proteus mirabilis.jpg Electron micrograph of a Proteus Mirabilis cell, with fimbrae extensions. By Xin Li, University of Michigan Medical School
Section 1
Include some current research in each topic, with at least one figure showing data.
File:Nihms-306801-f0003.jpeg A) A timelapse series of images of a raft of B. subtilis cells moving in a swarming monolayer. B) Images of elongated P. mirabilis cells swarming as a large raft in a catheter.
Section 2
Include some current research in each topic, with at least one figure showing data.
Section 3
Include some current research in each topic, with at least one figure showing data.
File:Nihms-306801-f0007.jpg Featureless: Bacillus subtilis 3610, Bull's eye: Proteus mirabilis PM7002 (generous gift of Phil Rather, Emory University). Dendritic:Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 (generous gift of George O'Toole, Dartmouth College). Vortex: Paenibacillus vortex V (generous gift of Rivka Rudner, Hunter College). A non-swarming mutant and subsequent suppressor in Bacillus subtilis 3610. Uncolonized agar appears black and bacterial biomass is white.
Conclusion
Overall paper length should be 3,000 words, with at least 3 figures.
References
[Sample reference] Takai, K., Sugai, A., Itoh, T., and Horikoshi, K. "Palaeococcus ferrophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a barophilic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2000. Volume 50. p. 489-500.
Edited by student of Joan Slonczewski for BIOL 238 Microbiology, 2009, Kenyon College.