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    The white circle in this image is a Petri dish, named for its inventor, Julius Richard Petri. These dishes are one of the most common pieces of equipment in biology labs, where researchers use them to grow cells.
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    Internal NotePermission email: From: Dipon Ghosh Sent: Monday, March 15, 2021 1:10 PM To: Abbey Bigler Cc: Bob Horvitz Subject: Re: Request on Behalf of NIGMS Dear Abbey, We'd be happy to share these pictures with you to feature in the NIGMS Image and Video Gallery. I've attached three pictures that we'd shared with the media to accompany press releases about our recent paper to this email. Here's the additional information you requested: We permit inclusion of these pictures in the NIGMS Image and Video Gallery and can confirm that the material is free of copyright restrictions. Credit for these images goes to Eugene L. Q. Lee. These pictures can be accompanied by the following title/caption: Despite lacking both eyes and the opsin proteins used by visual systems to detect colors, the microscopic roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans can sense the color of light in its environment while foraging on colorful bacteria. And here's a brief description of our work: Color detection is used by animals to navigate colorful natural environments and is thought to require proteins known as opsins that are central to how visual systems sense light. Our study reports our surprising discovery that despite lacking eyes or opsins, a microscopic roundworm called Caenorhabditis elegans can sense the color of light in its environment to guide it away from pigmented toxins made by harmful colorful bacteria. In general, our work tells us that we have much to learn and explore about how animals can sense light. Perhaps by better understanding color sensitivity in the worm, given that the genes involved appear to be evolutionarily conserved, we might find similar patterns and activities in other organisms and therefore learn new, unexpected ways in which animals, including humans, sense, respond to, and interact with the light that is so ubiquitous in our environment. Please let me know if you have any questions or need any other information. Best, Dipon
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    SourceH. Robert Horvitz and Dipon Ghosh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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    Credit LineEugene L. Q. Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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