Now in its third year, the American Society for Microbiology’s Agar Art contest attracts a staggering array of entries that just keep getting better. This year’s winner was New York scientist Jasmine Temple, who used yeast to ‘paint’ a watery sunset. Jasmine and her team spent a serious amount of time sourcing and even genetically manipulating yeast to produce the colours needed. Some of the yeast they used contained colour-producing genes scavenged from sea anemones and jellyfish.

Here are just a few of the stunning agar artworks. You can see the full collection and read some fascinating stories about how each was created at the Society’s Facebook page.

             Winner – Sunset at the End                                                                           Dye of the Tiger

                             Finding Pneumo                                                      Trump (c’mon, you knew he’d be in there somewhere)

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