Prize Details

• Certificate
• Image used in branch promotional materials
• $100 gift card to the winner (Best image)
• $50 gift card to the runner-up (Second best image)
• $50 gift card for people's choice award (Image that best fits the theme)

Image details

Get back in touch with your creative side and submit an entry for 2023 Microbial Art Prize!
This year’s theme is tba.
All types of entries are welcome as well as any interpretation on the theme!
Multiple prizes are up for grabs!

Entry details

• Maximum 2 entries per person
• Submitter must be the owner of the image(s)
• Submitter must be a member of ASM
• A complete entries comprises:
    (1) image
    (2) description (100 words max)
    (3) submitter details

Email entries to: Sarah Baines (bainess@unimelb.edu.au)

Please note that by submitting an entry you agree that if your image is selected, the ASM Victorian Branch Committee reserves the right to use the image as promotional material at ASM-organised and ASM-sponsored events. The image may be edited at the discretion of the ASM Victorian Branch Committee. The submitter’s name will always be included with the image when used.

2022

2021

"Microbes cultured from synthetic nectar"
—Gene Drendel, La Trobe University

2020

"Lysis of a Blockteria by Polydron-phage"
—Dr Jen Wood, La Trobe University, and Adam Wood

2019

"Growth pattern of a Bacillus mycoides colony grown from a single spot as it spreads across an agar plate"
—Gene Drendel, La Trobe University

2018*

"Growth of fungal colonies isolated from soil and grown on Rose Bengal Agar. Photo shows differing colony morphology and droplets of fungal exudates"
—Gene Drendel, La Trobe University