The Slime Mould Collective

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This site needs an identification section. Can anybody ID one for me?

I'm new to the site so apologies if I'm simply not finding the ID section.  Usually google can ID them well enough since most seem pretty…

Started by Richard Balzer in Projects & Ideas

1 Mar 10, 2015
Reply by Heather Barnett

Free Physarum

I've started raising sclerotia off Physarum, I'm happy to post them out to anyone anywhere in the world free of charge, just PM me. Offer e…

Started by ian in Links & Resources

8 Mar 10, 2015
Reply by Ryan Teh Han Rong

Slime molds in significant industrial biofilms

Hi folks, as a bacteriologist I have come across slime molds only very recently when I found they can actually dominate biofilms designed t…

Started by Ralf Cord-Ruwisch in Projects & Ideas

4 Feb 10, 2015
Reply by Ralf Cord-Ruwisch

Raising from spores? timescale?

Anyone had luck getting from spores to a mature organism? I've got easy access to good old e.coli and wonder if it's a sufficient food, I'd…

Started by ian in Links & Resources

2 Feb 9, 2015
Reply by ian

Does anyone have a polycephalum strain that's not from Carolina?

I've been talking to a researcher who reckons I'm not getting mature colonies from spores because I need spores from more than one individu…

Started by ian in Links & Resources

2 Feb 8, 2015
Reply by Natalie Andrew

Using Stories to understand Slime Mould

Hi from Settle Stories - we run a Storytelling Festival and want to use stories to tell the story of slime mould. The stories could be oral…

Started by Charles Tyrer in Links & Resources

0 Dec 24, 2014

making tidy sclerotia

I've got the knack of getting sclerotium to form but my slime mould isn't well behaved. The commercially supplied stuff is a nice smooth ev…

Started by ian in Links & Resources

2 Dec 12, 2014
Reply by Heather Barnett

individuation

Many of us are using Physarum sourced from Carolina - does anyone know how many cultural lineages they have?  Any ideas about how we might…

Started by Sarah Roberts in Projects & Ideas

8 Nov 25, 2014
Reply by Sarah Roberts

Physarum infested with back mould like structures

Hi everyone, I'm recently doing a project on Physarum. Lately, my plates have been infested with black patches. I re-plated but the black m…

Started by Alicia Lock in Links & Resources

4 Nov 14, 2014
Reply by ian

Yet another time lapse!

http://youtu.be/nM1dDtvMw1c I used a little Veho usb 'scope to shoot this. With the supplied software, the image quality is noisy and the…

Started by ian in Links & Resources

0 Nov 12, 2014

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