How do you guys count your bacterial or yeast colonies?

03 January 2025 1 9K Report

How do you guys count your bacterial or yeast colonies? My fungus grows like yeast with distinct colony dots. I usually rely on the Fiji app(ImageJ) to manually tag and count them. What’s your go to method? 🧫 #colonycount #fungi

Tomáš Hluska

Hi,

if I am interested in colony count, I just count them manually directly on the plate. But I do it only for "fun" after transformation of E. coli, so I don't need any picture or exact number in case I would miss something or so.

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