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Noémie Matthey

@noemiematthey.bsky.social
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Microbiologist in @justinecollier.bsky.social 's lab by day & Science Artist by night 🦄 ! Love living with, working with and drawing about microbes, especially bacteria! Open for commissions ♡ campsite.bio/noemiematthey

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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
#inktober day 16 with Blunder Here I was rather inspired by a happy accident. In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin from a moldy Petri dish in his lab. But did you know that the mold most likely came from a mycologist, C. J. La Touche, who worked one floor below? #microbesky #sciart
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
#inktober day 15 with Ragged It made me thought about the ragged edges observed on swarming motility plates. Swarming bacteria form beautiful patterns, worth of an art exhibition 🖼️ #microbesky #sciart #inktober2025
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
#inktober day 13 with Drink Microorganisms are essentials for fermentation in various products including beer, wine, kefir or kombucha. With some friends we've already brewed our own beer, but lately I've become a huge fan of water kefir (especially with ginger). #inktober2025 #microbesky #sciart
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
#Inktober days 11 + 12 with Sting & Shredded Phages invade bacteria. Some bacteria fight back, cutting the phage DNA into small fragments with restriction enzymes. These "scissors", which are part of RMS, can degrade foreign DNA, while leaving the bacteria's own DNA unharmed. #microbesky #sciart
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
#Inktober days 8 and 9 combined - Reckless & Heavy The reckless use of antibiotics in humans, animals and plants is the main driver in the development of antimicrobial resistance pathogens. As one of the top global threats, AMR places a heavy burden on public health. #inktober2025 #microbesky
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
#inktober day 7 - Starfish Did you know that there are bacteria, called Stella vacuolata, with a star-shape ? When autumn begins, they're usually two different mindests: - Those who are already looking forward to the winter holidays 🎄 - And the fall lovers 🎃 #inktober2025 #sciart #microbesky
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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Day 4, Claw. Phages don't really have claws, but they do have tail fibres that recognise receptors on host cells and clamp on, allowing phage particles to infect their hosts. #drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky
Black and white ink drawing of a bacteriophage with an icosahedral capsid short tail and crab claws instead of tail fibres. The ink drawing has a thick black outline and minimal shading
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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Day 5, Moon. The physical structures of phages are often compared to the shape and landing action of a lunar lander, with tail fibres reminiscent of the landing struts, to gently settle on the surface of its host. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky
Black and white ink drawing of the moon, with a giant phage on the top right that is half the width of the moon. The moon and phage are white, surrounded by a black circular background of messy, overlapping concentric circles
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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Day 6, Sacrifice/Cry. Individual bacterium can sacrifice themselves to prevent phages reproducing and save the rest of the bacterial community. They can also send out quorum sensing messages to warn other bacteria. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky
Black and white ink cartoon of a scared, shouting bacterium with wide eyes, it has a hexagonal phage particle on its back. The bacterium has its mouth open and is shouting, in a speech bubble coming is a skull and cross bones, the skull is hexagonal and looks a bit like a phage
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Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Lactobacillus, what a #LittleLegend ! Part of our gut and vaginal microbiome, this microbe is one of the most widely used #probiotics to treat diarrhoea and eczema. Thanks to Hiral Raval, a @microbiologysociety.org champion, for suggesting I draw this for #InternationalMicroorganismDay 🐡🧪🧫#scicomm
A black and white cartoon of lactobacillus on a mottled pinky yellow splashy background. The bacillus is peaceful, wearing a headband and decorated with hippie style flowers, stars and peace signsA Microbiology Society branded version of a black and white cartoon of lactobacillus on a mottled pinky yellow splashy background. The bacillus is peaceful, wearing a headband and decorated with hippie style flowers, stars and peace signs. The quote is 'As they are probiotic strains, I love them from the gut of my heart! - Hiral Raval, BioGeneVersity, India.
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
#inktober day 6 with #Pierce I am a day late, but the prompt for yesterday inspired me more than the one of today. I could not resist drawing a specific nanoweapon called the type 6 secretion system. In some bacteria like Vibrio cholerae, it is firing at random... So the unexpected can happen.
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
#inktober day 5 with Deer That one was tricky. When a deer or any organism dies, microbes begin the decomposition process, returning nutrients to the soil. #inktober2025 #sciart
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
#inktober day 4 with Murky They are some places where you expect murky water (or rather medium) and some places where you don't. Poor little guy 🐟 #inktober2025 #sciart
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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Day 3, Soft. Soft agar is used to visualise phages - plaque assay: bacteria infected with phages are mixed with soft agar, poured over an agar plate. A bacterial lawn grows & plaques appear - as phages infect bacteria, multiply, kill & repeat to form an expanding hole. #drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky
Black and white ink drawing of an agar filled petri dish with black spots or plaques covering the surface. One of these plaques is surrounded by a circle, connected by dotted lines to a larger magnified circle showing a lawn of bacteria punctured by a circlar hole with 7 smaller bacteriophages inside
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
#inktober day 3 with #Crown And here is our 👑 Queen B (Queen Bacterium) : E. coli It is a ubiquitous bacterium. It is the "lab rat" of microbiology. And it is also a common resident of our gut. Which bacterium would you have named as our Queen B? #inktober2025 #sciart
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
#inktober day 2 with #Weave Cyanobacteria form interwoven patterns. The micrographs from paper by J. Cammann et al, in Nat. Comm. Physics (2024) inspired me. Today was less about googly eyes and more about focusing on the feel of my pens. Having fun by playing with different brush and pen sizes.
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It's #Inktober once more, time to grab some pen and paper. Will you join? The first prompt is #Mustache, and this distinguished gentlebacterium is using one of its flagellum as a mustache. #inktober2025 #inktoberday1 #sciart
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The latest Preprint of the @justinecollier.bsky.social lab is out there ! I am so happy to share about my major work done on one of the two cytosine methyltransferases present in Caulobacter crescentus.
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I am trying to adopt a new routine on Sundays, which consists in taking some time for myself and to enjoy some creative activities including colouring our colouring book (#BacterialWorld @drsarahwettstadt.bsky.social). For the first letter/drawing of the book, I chose to only use my fav colour!
First coloured page of the colouring book called 'coloured bacteria from A to Z' by Sarah Wettstadt and Noémie Matthey. The first bacterium is Agrobacterium tumefaciensZoom of the previous picture showing the Agrobacterium tumefaciens bacterium and a plant with a tumor as this bacterium can cause this disease in plant
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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
✨ We’re doing a #GIVEAWAY to celebrate #WorldBookDay & #InternationalWomensDay 📚👩‍🔬 Win a wonderful #microbiology colouring book by 2 fabulous women @noemiematthey.bsky.social & @drsarahwettstadt.bsky.social 🦠🎨 To enter: - Follow us - Like - Repost this Winner chosen at random 10/03/25 #MicroSky
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MicrobesNG @microbesng.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
📚✨ Happy #WorldBookDay! ✨📚 What better way to celebrate than with a book giveaway? We are gifting one lucky winner a Microbiology colouring book by @noemiematthey.bsky.social & @drsarahwettstadt.bsky.social Winner announced on 10/03/25 – get your entries in! 🎉 #MicroSky
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✨ We’re doing a #GIVEAWAY to celebrate #WorldBookDay & #InternationalWomensDay 📚👩‍🔬 Win a wonderful #microbiology colouring book by 2 fabulous women @noemiematthey.bsky.social &…
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Sarah Wettstadt @drsarahwettstadt.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Our colouring book "Coloured Bacteria from A to Z" just got published in Italian, the 8th translation 🦠 So happy and proud of us with @noemiematthey.bsky.social for always advancing this lovely project to share the amazing and fascinating bacterial world 🥰 #microSky sarahs-world.blog/coloured-bac...
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Coloured Bacteria from A to Z - a microbiology colouring book
Coloured bacteria from A-Z: a microbiology colouring book to explore the bacterial world with engaging and fun illustrations in 4 languages.
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
It's really nice to see the huge flow of new people coming here! Maybe it's time for a quick presentation. Hi 👋 I'm Noémie, I love science 🧬 and especially microbes 🔬 I do scientific illustrations for paper, cover or logo. And I'm the illustrator behind the Bacterial World blog: sarahs-world.blog
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Mel Lacey @mellacey.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Microbiology Education and Outreach peeps, I tried to find all the folk here I could and make this, please let me know who I've missed and I'll add them go.bsky.app/QYgSwS6
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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Interested in how antibiotics in the marine environment can affect marine mammals and the ecosystem? Check out this funded #PhD opportunity with myself at Bangor University. Info about the project & how to apply can be found here www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
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Information for Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Management of UK Marine Resources (CDT SuMMeR) applicants including PhD projects,...
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Nagissa Mahmoudi @nagissa.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
We now have a graphic to go with our recent preprint, thanks to the talented @noemiematthey.bsky.social. #microsky
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
#Intkober23 combining day 5 to day 8 with Map, Golden, Drip and Toad! Cupriavidus metallidurans is a #bacterium that lives in the soil where it can ingest toxic metallic compound. They don't get poisoned and in the process they produce tiny #gold nuggets. How cool is that?! #sciart #scicomm
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
#inktober2023 day 3 - Path Maybe this little bug is ready for a new adventure in a human body. Will he choose a nice path or end up in great danger? #sciart #inktober #bacteria #illustration #path #drawing #digitaldrawing
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
#Inktober2023 day 2 - spiders I recently learned that scientists managed to produce synthetic spider silk using E. coli. Therefore, I present to you Spidercoli ! #sciart #scicomm #inktober #bacteria #syntheticsilk
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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
#inktober2023 - 1. Dream A not so peaceful dream for this little bug. #inktober #sciart #dream
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Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
DEFENCE As their defence, Bordetalla pertussis attacks our immune defences in the lungs, so the airways don’t produce mucus. This causes the coughs to make a characteristic whooping sound. 🔬🧪 #SciArt #PathogenPortraits #SciComm
Pathogen portrait of Bordatella pertussis - the bacterium responsible for whooping cough. Black and white cartoon of long oval shaped bacterium with a tail curling upwards from the bottom, eyes scrunched shut laughing, mouth wide open, big pointy teeth showing. Haw haw haw is written next to it. Background is dark with a lurid green splashy cloud coming off it
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