Microbial Christmas 🎄

Festive agar plates from across the internet

The diversity in microbes is breath-taking. Individual cells may not look like much under the microscope - they are just too tiny. But when they form visible colonies on agar plates many bacteria and moulds grow in the most staggering display of colours and shapes. 🧫

And most scientists are generally creative and curious people. Sometimes they need a bit of compensation for the pressures and frustrations of their daily work in the lab. Sometimes they just like to play.

Plus, everyone loves a bit of Christmas!

Which is why we are posting here a selection of the most stunning microbial agar art we could find on the internet.

Click on the photos to learn more about the people and/or the germs behind these images!

🎅🦌

And please post your own photos in the comment section below or on Twitter #MicrobialChristmas @CUsuperbugs.


Matthias Eberl

Matthias is Professor for Translational Immunology at Cardiff University where he leads a research group investigating the immune response to acute bacterial infections. He is also Academic Lead for Public Involvement and Engagement at Cardiff’s School of Medicine and a core member of the Superbugs team.

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