Glowing Fish

The latest research from Alison Gould and Hannah Osland at Temple University is all about symbiotic bioluminescent bacteria strains that colonize the light organs of Siphamia tubifer fish. For this figure, I worked closely with the scientists to understand the structure of the light organ in the larval and adult fish, and created both watercolor illustrations of the fish as well as vector illustrations of the light organs and bacteria colonization.

You can read their paper in Trends in Microbiology here: Gould and Osland 2025

Look at all those teeny tiny little glowy bacteria!