About the Exhibit
Zoo In You: The Human Microbiome offers fun, interactive ways to learn about the body’s constant microbial companions, where they live, and how important they are to overall health.
Visitors come face to face with a full-body microbial reflection at the Microbe Mirror interactive and navigate a tilt-table maze to learn how a newborn baby is first colonized by microbes. Hands-on components with green screen technology let them give a “weather report” on the current conditions of their nose, mouth, gut, or skin.
Whether racing against the clock to reconstruct a DNA puzzle, peering into a microscope to see real preserved microbe specimens, or discovering the four major kinds of microbes, visitors get up close and personal with Zoo In You.
Zoo In You: The Human Microbiome is made possible by an award from the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA),award number R25OD010942 , from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Partners
Zoo In You: The Human Microbiome is made possible by an award from the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA),award number R25OD010942, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
As microbiome research is a technologically complex and rapidly advancing field, OMSI partnered with the J. Craig Venter Institute, a national leader in research on the human microbiome.
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