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.

Agar studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Kensington, and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She was contemporaries with Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes, Rex Whistler, Cecil Beaton, Robin ...

The MSA will select for organisms such as Staphylococcus species which can live in areas of high salt concentration (plate on the left in the picture below). This is in contrast to Streptococcus ...

Spirit blue agar contains an emulsion of olive oil and spirit blue dye. Bacteria that produce lipase will hydrolyze the olive oil and produce a halo around the bacterial growth. The Gram-positive rod, ...