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Midterm Yohei Inokuchi
http://bha5.bioclub.org/participants/yohei/
I want to get bacteria in each part of my body, and visualize.
Georg: Yohei's work deals with the different perceptions of technical and biological time - of objective versus subjective time. In cells/organisms the Circadian Rhythms are responsible for keep track of time. Hideo Iwasaki, the director of metaPhorest is also well-known for being one of the discoverers of the Circadian System in (Cyano-)Bacteria (Search: KaiA, KaiB, KaiC. Kai (回) translates to turn, round, times, recurrence.
The round physical shape of petri-dishes could also suggest possible directions of working with bacteria and time.
Malu: I think you have a very interesting starting point. Time-Stress became one of the main issues in our society. I could imagen that sweat could help you to measure the 'stressed bacteria' Usually people sweat more when they are in stressful situations. To measure a stress-level and the behaviour of bacteria to it, maybe you could try to measure the stress level with a ph test. (If I remember well, we have to different sweat glands, apocrine and eccrine. mostly when we have a 'stress-sweat' the apocrine start working. They might have another ph level then the eccrine) I found this: '... and even stress, the pH of our sweat can change dramatically. We can usually tell when the sweat becomes too acidic (low pH) when their is a foul odour accompanying the sweat that comes from under our arms.' Also more experiments about it here: https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0022202X15486798/1-s2.0-S0022202X15486798-main.pdf?_tid=9a17af09-60c7-4cc2-91f7-f7bc901e08d1&acdnat=1521270445_f626b8475fa8ce545a8a92e47c3a9e33