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.

“It's a fun way to share science, microbiology facts, with people who might not be seeking out science accounts, but they like to read,” said Grosser. Creating agar art is not a simple task since the ...

This is in contrast to Streptococcus species, whose growth is selected against by this high salt agar (plate on the right in the picture below). The differential ingredient in MSA is the sugar ...