Join ChiTownBio for their end-of-year meeting on Thursday, December 19th at 7 PM.  This year they’re bringing back one of the most popular and talked about events –EmpiEm paintings with modified bacteria! You’ll work with a simple and safe laboratory strain of E. coli that has been engineered to produce colorful fluorescent proteins from marine organisms like jellyfish, and you’ll paint them onto a petri dish that contains all the nutrients to support their growth.

We’ll provide the dishes, the bacterial strains engineered to fluoresce different colors (red, green) or produce a different pigment, and some tools, tips and tricks. All you need to do is bring some festive cheer and your best idea for some bioart! At the end of the night we’ll take the plates, allow the bacteria to grow and form your designs, and then share photographs of your work.

We’ll be bringing about 40 plates, so make sure to be prompt; plates are first come first serve.