Micro B3 Banner Biodiversity

The second Micro B3 Banner "Life on Earth evolved from the Oceans" was shown for the first time at the EEB meeting in Bremen May 6-8 2013 and then at the EMBO Diatom workshop. It was designed by Saskia Wesnigk, EMPA Brighton and Chris Boseley, Senior Graphic Designer, www.SussexSigns.com, based on ideas by Chris Bowler, Johanna Wesnigk, Frank Oliver Glöckner, with input from Josep Gasol, Renzo Kottmann and others.

We would like to thank all those who shared their photographs with us:

Pictures of Plankton: The"Plankton Chronicles Project” http://www.planktonchronicles.org

Pictures of Bacteria: Prof. Heribert Cypionka

http://www.pmbio.icbm.de/mikrobiologischer-garten/eng/index.php3

Pictures of Viruses: Matt B. Sullivan (2007). Exploring the vast diversity of marine viruses, Oceanography 20:135-139  http://www.eebweb.arizona.edu/faculty/mbsulli/

Dr Willie Wilson, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences https://ncma.bigelow.org/

Pictures of Marine Fungi: Figures and photos of fungal colonies originate from the marine fungal strain collection of the Kiel center for marine natural products (KiWiZ) and the project MARINE FUNGI (www.marinefungi.eu). Copyright: GEOMAR

Also from the book by: Guangyi Wang, Xin Wang, Xianhua Liu, and Qian Li, Diversity and Biogeochemical Function of Planktonic Fungi in the Ocean. http://www.hawaii.edu/microbiology

Other pictures were bought from Shutterstock.com.

The banner is available for your next event. It  is mounted within a roll-up mechanism and thus can be displayed whereever you like to place it. let us know at www.microb3.eu/contact if you want to display one or more of them, so we can arrange shipping it to you. It comes in a protective shell of  approx. 90 length and 20 cm diameter and weighs 3 kg. The size when mounted is 2 m high and 80 cm wide.

You are also invited to print off the banner in any format that suits you and use it for flyers or posters. If you need higher resolution, please contact us so we can give you access via a Dropbox.