ADA Forsyth scientists Jessica Mark Welch and Gary Borisy, along with their colleague Alex Valm at MBL, pioneered the field of imaging in microbiology, developing the first technology (called CLASI-FISH) able to capture images of bacteria with enough detail to identify spatial relationships within the communities living in the oral microbiome. Now they are taking this technology to the next level, developing a method of imaging that can capture live samples over time. “This is super exciting because they will be moving so that we can see them grow and figure out which bacteria are growing and how fast they are growing relative to where they are,” said Jessica Mark Welch, the PI on the project.
