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 ...

The artists use bacteria as their paint and fungus as their canvas to educate people about the important relationship we have with microbes. The American Society for Microbiology's Agar Art ...

The purpose of this practical is to investigate the effect of antiseptics or antibiotics on bacterial growth using agar plates and measuring zones of inhibition. This allows the selected bacteria ...