Christmas petri dishes

[Peter Sigsworth]

Could anyone in our ranks repeat the below with standard school equipment (no microbiology safety station available)
https://www.jcvi.org/blog/twas-night-christmas

 

[CovTech]

Damn thats an obscure list of bugs and fungi

Not sure many schools would have access to them even with a proper microbial set up

 

[Smiff12]

It's a nice idea in theory but in practice ?? Nope!

 

[Jburns]

That is epic!

 

[Peter Sigsworth]

It's a nice idea in theory but in practice ?? Nope!

exactly - getting the organisms then managing to inoculate so precisely must take some doing

 

[Lisa J]

Wow love these!

 

[Jburns]

exactly - getting the organisms then managing to inoculate so precisely must take some doing

Thinking about this, I might have been able to do this well a decade ago but I shake a bit too much to do aseptic properly. But I would inoculate the plate with the pattern then I would look at treat the surrounding area to make sure nothing grew on it