Painting on Petri dishes

October 2, 2015 10:10 PM

The 2015 finalists for the American Society of Microbiologists'agar art winners have been announced! Agar art, also sometimes called petri dish art or microbial art, is a technique in which colonies of bacteria or fungi are grown on agar plates to produce a pattern. If you want to see more, the Daily Dish posts a new art plate every single day. Previously.
posted by sciatrix (8 comments total)

The Taj at Agar.
posted by sockpup at 10:26 PM on October 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

If any school administrators who are tasked with developing "cross-disciplinary activities" see this their heads will explode (assuming it's not already in all schools everywhere, I am super old)
posted by XMLicious at 12:19 AM on October 3, 2015

This is cool. Thanks for posting it.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 12:28 AM on October 3, 2015

This is so great. Thanks for posting
posted by gerstle at 4:18 AM on October 3, 2015

f any school administrators who are tasked with developing "cross-disciplinary activities" see this their heads will explode

Given that microcontrollers all look like bombs, undoubtedly an agar dish looks like a chemical weapon.
posted by leotrotsky at 5:38 AM on October 3, 2015 [2 favorites]

Especially this one. Turns out though that it is made of a "major source of medical natural products, such as antibiotics and anti-tumour agents"
posted by achrise at 7:13 AM on October 3, 2015

Nice! That NYC map one is a great idea.
posted by LobsterMitten at 6:06 PM on October 3, 2015

This is so cool
posted by biggreenplant at 10:48 AM on October 4, 2015 [1 favorite]