Microbial Easter 🐰

Fun 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 Easter!

Which is why we are posting here a selection of the most stunning microbial Easter agar art we could find on the internet, to go with our earlier Christmas special.

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

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


Matthias Eberl

Professor Eberl leads a research group at Cardiff University investigating the immune response to acute bacterial infections, and is a core member of the Superbugs team.

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