Micro B3 Banner Biotechnology

The third Micro B3 Banner "Decoding Marine (Meta)Genomics for Biotechnology" was shown for the first time at the Industry Expert Workshop in Groningen, the Netherlands, October 14-15 2013. It was designed by Saskia Wesnigk, EMPA Brighton and Damian Steel, Graphic Designer at www.SussexSigns.com, based on ideas by Johanna Wesnigk, Fergal O’Gara, Dick Janssen and others.

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

• Pictures of Icelandic hot springs and bacteria found there: Dr. Viggó Þór Marteinsson, Matis, ohf. / Icelandic Food and Biotech R&D Vínlandsleið 12, 113 Reykjavík - www.matis.is
• Pictures of Urania anoxic hypersaline lake and the bacteria found there: courtesy of NSF OCE-0849578, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Virginia Edgcomb©WHOI www.whoi.edu Thank you also to Michail M. Yakimov Marine Molecular Microbiology & Biotechnology CNR - Institute for Coastal Marine Environment, Messina, Italy www.cnr.it
• Pictures of the ROV Quest and hot smoker courtesy of: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen www.marum.de
• Laboratory picture: Dr. Fernando de la Calle. PharmaMar, S.A. Madrid, Spain, www.pharmamar.com
• 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. Also Prof. Frank Oliver Glöckner, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany.
• Further 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.