2015 BioArt Competition Winners: Mehmet Berkmen and Maria Penil

Dr. Mehmet Berkmen’s laboratory built a unique chamber that allows scientists in the lab to photograph bacteria colonies grown on agar plates for several weeks. Because agar rapidly dehydrates, such long-term growth would not be possible outside the specialized time-lapse photography chamber. The researchers use this method to study long-term interactions between colonies of bacteria. In this video, bacteria painted onto an agar plate grow into an image of a flowering plant. Several different types of ba