Some of our anaerobic fungi can form big fluffy biomass spheres when grown in the lab. Those spheres can indeed become quite a problem considering their size and that we usually transfer our fungi from serum bottle to serum bottle by injection with needles and syringes.
Despite this, I personally love our little floof balls of fungi very much. Who couldn’t love them – look how cute they are!
Together with our awesome master student Leonie we also looked at the floof balls under a stereomicroscope. Check out the different stages of floof below: from cell cluster, to dandelion, to full-on floof ball.
