Joe Davis (USA) / Biography
MAKING FIRE

I grow magnetotactic bacteria. I can only work with laboratory strains in controlled environments, so I collect wild-type organisms that I can freely incorporate into apparatus outside the lab. By chance, I found that one wild strain produced hydrogen gas in anaerobic cultures with catalytic iron filings. These can be used to make fuel and electricity. They also happen to contain principal components of LC circuits in vivo.

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION: Making Fire (10:25), US, in English, color, stereo, DVD, 2008
PHOTO CREDITS: Joe Davis, Making Fire, 2008, stills from a color video. © 2008 Joe Davis