Each year the ASM's MicrobeLibrary Visual Collection Editorial Committee presents the Editor's Choice Award to three visual resources (one animation, one still image, and one video) published over the past year. The chosen resources exemplify the criteria for publication in the MicrobeLibrary. The Visual Collection contains high quality, peer-reviewed images, animations, and videos about the microbial world. The awardee for video submission of the year is: Mud and Microbes: a Time-Lapse Photographic Exploration of a Sediment Bacterial Community Michael Lemke, Microbial Ecology, University of Illinois at Springfield Roza George, Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens Keith Miller, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL A full description discussing the educational value of the video and references may be found at:
http://www.microbelibrary.org/asmonly/details.asp?id=2853