Coming in Sept 2024...
Sample illustration by Ben Hutchings from Follow Your Gut…featuring dendritic cells (the Dendries) carrying bacterials samples (Biffy the Bifidobacterium & Sal the Salmonella) through the lymphatic system of a female human body, about to give birth...
Meet Biffy, the timid Bifidobacterium who is forced to leave their family and build a new home – in the gut of a newborn baby…
Follow Your Gut is the story of the human microbiome as it has never been told before. Narrated from the perspective of different gut bacteria, this scientifically accurate adventure explores their evolving relationship with the characters of the immune system as they learn to cooperate and build a healthy human.
Created by the art-science team* behind the award-winning graphic novel – The Invisible War, and developed in collaboration with reproductive biologist and molecular microbiologist Dr Lisa Stinson, Follow Your Gut takes readers on a vivid journey into the complex and surreal landscapes of the human body and invites you to meet the ecosystem within…
* Ailsa Wild, Ben Hutchings, Briony Barr & Gregory Crocetti
This project is supported with funding from the Australia Council for the Arts, Dr. Diane Lightfoot & the Australian Society for Microbiology.
Additional consulting scientists:
Immunologist Dr Sam Forster (Wellcome-Sanger Institute / Cambridge University / Monash University)
Microbiologist Dr. Alena Pribyl (Microba)
Virologist Dr. Jeremy Barr (Monash University)