How to Create Agar Art with Living Microbes

Step inside the creative process with Agar Art 2015 winners Maria Peñil Cobo, Mixed Media Artist, and Mehmet Berkmen, PhD, Staff Scientist at New England Biolabs. During their multi-year collaboration, Maria and Memo have created astonishing works of art using living microbes. Find out how they meld science and art with this behind-the-scenes how-to video guide.
Inspired? Submit your own agar art to ASM’s Agar Art 2017 contest through April 27, 2017 - www.asm.org/index.php/public-o...
Prizes include up to $200 in Amazon gift cards and the chance for your art to be featured in the Agar Art Gallery at ASM Microbe 2017 (www.asm.org/index.php/asm-micr..., June 1-5, 2017 in New Orleans, LA. Submissions must be high-resolution photos of an organism(s) growing on agar. Submitting artists must be ASM members ( asmscience.org/content/members...) or work with an official ASM Agar Art partner organization to create the submitted piece. Questions? Contact [e-mail].
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[@anjirrumey]

Being a QC microbiologist this is eye soothing ❤️❤️

[@schematicsneeded4922]

Love this. The colour restrictions really add to the whole experience

[@StephenWebb1980]

neat. I started using black agar agar for growing mycelium...might try this

[@user-us1gt1cr1l]

Clear message, clear structure, easy to understand, thank you

[@scimrandacosta]

Thankyou so much for this extremely beautiful and creative video.

[@labmedicine9265]

This is absolutely incredible..

[@4-EducationalPurposesOnly]

That's so cool and very unique

[@ayeshashaikh9729]

Fantabulous❤️

[@vivek7shirke]

This is why science is cool😍

[@shubhambera1952]

Wow... awesome ..

[@Leotique]

Love it !!! :)

[@useryazid]

Amazing, I have to try :D

[@lorepumaodonto]

i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dr.mohanprasad6456]

Wow amazing video and providing good knowledge📚

[@NosratJahanSrabony]

Amazing

[@immunologistkhalidaljebory6916]

amazing art , very like

[@priyohartanto4967]

i will try it, thanks

[@zenzero4635]

Thank you so much

[@bilalawan5552]

Your work is just perfect
Love your work😇

[@NiamhMCM1994]

Any jobs going, my old place of work was so dirty it annoyed me I love this 😍

[@dfbrk8196]

Where do you get one of those bench top stands for your gas cylinder? It looks like a perfect simple design!

[@kailseunteg2907]

Nice

[@angelicavilla.8093]

Hi, may I know which is the name of the bacterium used to develop the dandelion??? Thanks.

[@nivaswagh2385]

nice video

[@somyaprusty7088]

I want to work on that lab..superb

[@iLoveTurtlesHaha]

You said to make sure there is no condensation on the agar as it dries. But what if there is? What do we do? Do we toss them and start over?

[@bilalawan5552]

Hi dears
I m an undergraduate student of BS Microbiology and still studying Microbiology in pakistan
And your results are awesome
Himself i wanna be a member of ASM😇

[@NA-vu7tv]

What is that stock sound in the beginning?

[@sherwincollins8723]

thank you i needed this for my class at #BRCC #BatonRougeCommunityCollege in microbiology we used it for a lab

[@palino1976]

hi. what company should I contact in order to get the differents e.coli colored strains?

[@VenomiU]

The musique is awesome

[@iLoveTurtlesHaha]

it's stock music from Garageband XD

[@camilapalmaladoc2202]

Microb-Art!!!!

[@KingrpgNet]

Wow They looked yummy

[@vcreation4317]

Whats the name of bacteria..... Which seen in petriplate

[@SuryanIsaac]

are those 100mm Petri dishes?

[@WardanaPutra]

attend / listen to the research

[@mikeyang134]

@3:56 that butane torch should be replaced with a safer loop sterilizer. perhaps a loop incinerator lol.

[@purplerain365]

May I know... Are these microbial arts are sealed with epoxy?

[@AnnEspinoza]

I want to know this also?

[@user-pw2wf1ps4p]

Почему без маски??

[@erin2778]

They say agar weirdly

[@emmanuelgoldstein1089]

How much did this cost the tax payer, exactly?

[@katherinesorberlontok8928]

Nothing.

[@Pop-zb3wr]

not as much as your central bank, goldstein