As I mentioned in my previous post, my students and I have been experimenting with creating art from living colonies of bacteria:

I don’t think this is a common art form (though it’s one I want to explore in more detail down the road), but I am aware of a few other very intriguing examples of similar things.  For example, here are some of the stunning bacteria images by Dr. Eshel Ben-Jacob:

See more of Dr. Ben-Jacob’s artwork.

And here are some using fungi and bacteria by Dr. Niall Hamilton:

See more of Dr. Hamilton’s artwork.

And, of course, this famous image by Dr. Roger Tsien, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on green fluorescent protein:




Or these reconstructed ancestral coral pigments spliced into bacteria by Dr. Mikhail Maltz:



And some “photography” with genetically engineered bacteria by Dr. Chris Voigt:



In addition to working with actual bacteria and fungi, there are amazing works of art that depict microbes, such as the bacteria and viruses by Luke Jerram:



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See more Glass Microbiology by Luke Jerram.

If you know of other examples of microbial art, please share.