{"id":6923,"date":"2015-10-28T07:59:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T14:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6923"},"modified":"2023-01-27T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T21:54:16","slug":"starry-night-in-agar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/28\/starry-night-in-agar\/","title":{"rendered":"Starry Night in Agar"},"content":{"rendered":"

from USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ recreated with bacteria in petri dish<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Mary Bowerman<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"(Photo: American Society for Microbiology)<\/em><\/p>\n

Bacteria\u00a0may not be the tool of choice for most artists, but for microbiologists getting in touch with their creative side, it’s just as good as paint.<\/p>\n

Microbiologists, members of the American Society of Microbiology, and a few citizen scientists were recently challenged to use microbes to create works of art\u00a0as part of the American Society for Microbiology’s first Agar Art contest.<\/a><\/p>\n

As a\u00a0canvas,\u00a0each artist\u00a0used a petri dish filled with agar, a jelly type substance where bacteria live and grow.<\/p>\n

“The artist picked the bacteria they wanted to use based on the different color expressed when that strain of bacteria grows,” Emily Dilger, public outreach manager for\u00a0American Society for Microbiology, told USA TODAY Network.<\/p>\n

The winners of the contest were announced in September and\u00a0works of art included representations of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” as well as numerous originals. There was even an\u00a0outline of North Carolina created with\u00a0<\/a>Chromobacterium violaceum,<\/a>which is a flesh-eating\u00a0pathogen, according to American Society of Microbiology.<\/p>\n

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from USA Today Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ recreated with bacteria in petri dish by\u00a0Mary Bowerman (Photo: American Society for Microbiology) Bacteria\u00a0may not be the tool of choice for most artists, but for microbiologists getting in touch with their creative side, it’s just as good as paint. Microbiologists, members of the American Society of Microbiology, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}