Painting on Petri dishes
October 2, 2015 10:10 PM   Subscribe

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 (9 comments total) 21 users marked this as a favorite
 
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 blew my mind. I had no idea this was a thing.

(If I'm reading the Daily Dish 'about' page correctly, though, her works aren't agar art, but are petri dishes layered with epoxy polymer and painstakingly painted, which is pretty damn cool in its own right.)
posted by duffell at 3:23 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]


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