This cutie is a macrophage, a white blood cell! She and the fluorescent Staphyloccoccus aureus were a gift for my labmate (and a good friend of mine). She is writing her incredible thesis on the mechanisms that Staphyloccoccus aureus uses to infect chicken macrophages. So I made two cuties so she can have a macrophage and a S .aureus smiling at her even when she’s not in the lab! :)
Macrophage pattern by Jana Whitley












