Slime mold for artists

Last updated: April 28 2021

Acellular (includes Physarum polycephalum)

• "This Pulsating Slime Mold Comes in Peace" (video) Deep Look
• Interview with Dr. Audrey Dussutour The Joyful Microbe
• Physarum life cycle from Carolina Biological Supply
• xkcd (comic)
• Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture edited by Andrew Adamatzky (ebook available through VCU library)
• Slime computers Massive Science

Cellular (includes Dictyostelium discoideum)

• Dictyostelium discoideum The Embryo Project Encyclopedia
• The Social Amoebae : The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds by John Tyler Bonner (e-book available through VCU library)
• "Primitive agriculture in a social amoeba" Nature (accessible through VCU or other institutional account)
• Stemonitis fossilized in amber Nature

Both

• "Are You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?" (video) It's Okay To Be Smart

General

• "A Brief History of Agar" Asian Scientist
• "Walther and Angelina Hesse-EarlyContributors to Bacteriology" by Wolfgang Hesse (grandchild of Angelina and Walther)
• MushroomExpert.com by Michael Kuo
• Painting With Penicillin: Alexander Fleming’s Germ Art Smithsonian Magazine
• Looking for LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor Astrobiology at NASA
• What Was the Ancestor of Everything? (video) PBS Eons