The American Society for Microbiology's Agar Art Contest can be found here. Following is a transcript of the video: Narrator: This artwork is alive. Each one is made from fungi and bacteria.

On Wednesday (November 20), the American Society for Microbiology announced the winners of its 5th annual Agar Art contest. This year, there were 347 entries from artists in 43 countries, who ...

A sample of a microbe collected on Penn State’s University Park campus grows on an agar plate. Microbes are the foundation of our agricultural, environmental and human ecosystems, and they flow ...

But when the students go home, Grosser gets out her agar plates and brightly-colored bacteria collection to make literature-based agar art. Posting on Instagram as @thebookishbacteriologist, Grosser ...