I think storytelling, whether in the form of movies, art, music or a literary piece, is a powerful way to communicate science. Lately I have been mainly making comics, but also animations and games. These mediums have great potential to teach science to everyone. Also, the process of making comics, games is itself a great teaching and learning tool. I learn and discover so much more when I am creating those stories.

But I am also interested in working together with skilled game developers, animators, designers, artists to turn them into high quality games and animations.

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Comics 

You can  follow my microbial comic series  MICRO-C-OMICS (including some animated movies) on instagram  and twitter @micro_c_omics.  In each comic, I introduce some interesting features of microbial life. 

 

Before launching MICRO-C-OMICS I  made a  short comic story about the adventures of a soil bacterium, inspired by my PhD thesis.  You can download it by clicking the pdf icon.       (You can download the Question Sheet for the  comic story here       )

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Games and Interactive Stories

For the games I designed, you can visit https://microbelover.itch.io. You can play Soapiviro, a simple catch game about soap bubbles destroying viruses. It is the first game I made, pretty simple, but still emphasizes the effectiveness of soap against viruses. Also has a bonus animation I made explaining how soap destroys viruses.

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Second game, Zeze against Antibiotics, is more of an interactive story with puzzles, aiming to teach how soil bacteria acquire antibiotic resistance genes. But it is also a story about dreams, challenges, sacrifice, and change.

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You can watch the trailer below.

 

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Movies

When I was in Switzerland, I had the opportunity to join Exposure:Science Film Hackathon to make short science movies. Our movie "Quorum Sensing" received both jury and public awards. You can watch the movie below. ( Team: Ivan Diaz, Morgane Frund, Gamze Gulez, Laurent Rohrbasser)

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Other Science Related Creative Interests

 

(Modular) Origami

In addition to storytelling about microbes, I love creating tangible objects. Creating polyhedral structures via modular origami is one of them. It's fascinating to explore how the same piece of paper can be folded into different shapes, each with its own unique structural properties. By varying the size and type of paper, we can create a wide range of structures, from rigid to flexible. Paper truly is an amazing material.  

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Living Materials

As someone who has been studying biofilms, I naturally  experimented with food waste, beer, tea to grow microbial cellulose at home. These are indeed what we call "floating biofilms". I had a big multi-dimensional exhibition idea at that time  and I want to realize it sometime soon. Here are some examples of those biofilms during growing and drying. 

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​​​​​​Color Play with Trees, Mountains and the Sky

I don't dare to call them paintings, but rather "color play". The reason I share  these is to point what David Hockney says (and does), reflecting the colors I see while painting. (and some colors in me reflected to the painting). 

 

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My Impressions of  Cosmicomics by Calvino

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