Scientists and others used bacteria grown on agar plates to create their artworks for the American Society for Microbiology’s annual Agar Art competition.

Megan Biesinger paints lungs covered in flowers on her agar plate for the art competition. She uses a drawing on paper towels underneath the plate to trace the image in translucent bacteria paint.

The American Society for Microbiology’s annual agar art awards asked scientists, artists and others to create art out of microbes. This year, the theme was: who is your favorite microbiologist?

This gorgeous art was made with a surprising substance: live bacteria. Agar plates changed the way scientists cultivate tiny life in labs. Now agar is the canvas for a growing school of art.

At the end of the competition, the agar plates are taken back to the MMBIO lab to allow the bacteria to grow. According to Black, they store the plates in incubators for a day or two and then the ...

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American Society For Microbiology Agar Art 2022 Contest; Joaquín Acosta, André Barbet, Camilo Berríos-Pastén and Andrés E. Marcoleta from the Universidad de Chile ...

Participants will create agar art by painting with microbes and learn how to use traditional biology lab techniques with artistic tools. A team of trained staff and PhD level scientists will hold an ...

It’s called Agar art, named after the agar plates. They’re used to cultivate bacteria, but in this case are a canvas. Alexander Fleming, who famously discovered penicillin, was an originator of the ...

Using different antibiotic plates for the agar, Justin also shows how he’s able to achieve a white or black background. And glow-in-the-dark images thanks to his use of bacteria that exhibit ...