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Giulia Ghisleni (University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences - Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo, 1 - 20126, Milan, Italy)
We all are plunged into a world of invisible uncountable microorganisms that live inside, over, and around us. Despite the massive amount of data obtained from human and environmental microbiota studies, their concrete impacts on our life are hardly communicated. When the numbers are too big, people feel less empathic than when a personal story is narrated. Science visualization must inform the viewer efficiently, and images are the key to evoking an engagement response. Images give us emotional inputs in which we recognize ourselves and from which we build stories. My work exploits pictures to frame a narrative context, while hand drawing inserts the elements that are not usually visible, but yet have an impactful role in our story. The hand of a patient, a surgeon, and a newborn teleport us to a hospital, where a hidden potentially harmful ecosystem intertwines with our characters. In hospitals, the applied cleaning strategies select antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms, also pathogen ones. Antimicrobial resistance is expected to be the biggest human health concern in the future. The application of visuals helps scientists in communicating how important and concrete research is