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.

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 ...

Advances in microbiology are largely driven by improvements ... But it was the adaptation of the agar used in a dessert made by one of the members of Koch's laboratory to make a solid growth ...