This SEM image taken of a heavily calcified coccolithophore species along with its naturally occurring bacterial community was submitted to the 2023 SNSF Scientific Image Competition.
Florian Fisch, a writer for Horizon magazine, saw the image and wanted to delve further into what we were doing when we took this image.
This short article provides a nice snapshot into the hidden world of algae, and the questions were are trying to unravel.