Getting ready for some artsy science outreach with Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷's colorful plasmids, shown here in E. coli that has been streaked out all over a Petri dish.

Science, but make it pretty.

Spring is in the air...

Some bugs making so much acid they precipitate the bile salts in MacConkey and turn the media cloudy.

Have you ever seen art made with living microbes? On Friday, June 20, at 7 p.m., step into the world of agar art at E2Art Gallery in Los Angeles! This free exhibition will showcase pieces from ASM's annual Agar Art Contest. Reserve your spot now: asm.social/2sF

Cleaning out old plates reveals a thicc K. oxytoca colony on MacConkey.

If you're in L.A. and missed the Agar Art Exhibit last night, no worries! The art will remain at E2Art Gallery for another week! e2artgallery.com #AgarArt #ASMicrobe

This single Klebsiella oxytoca colony that is set to just take on the entire plate....

A spot plate testing which of these 34 phages can infect this strain of Klebsiella, where each zone of clearing is a drop of phage lysate that has cleared away the bacteria.

A spot plate testing which of these 34 phages can infect this particular strain, clearing the bacteria where phage lysate is added to it.

The little Klebsiella that could. Plated on June 6th, this lone colony was set to take over. But after only increasing from a 5 mm to a 5.6 mm diameter since the last update, its days may be numbered.

Transformation jokes.

It's Christmas in July! Simmons Citrate and MacConkey agar.

Sometimes I feel like my Petri dishes mock me...

In honor of a show I recently attended.

The 2025 #AgarArt Contest opens soon! This year’s theme is “Microbes Make the World Go Round." Show us the vital role microbes play in our daily lives through the medium of agar. Submissions are open Sept. 12-Oct. 26. See contest details: asm.social/2zN