Rising art stars

Jasmine Temple had a very special partner for her prize-winning art project: pigment-producing yeasts. Temple, a lab technician at New York Universitys Langone Medical Center, has won the third annual Agar Art contest, a competition organised and juried by members of the American Society for Microbiology that asks contestants to create works of art from microbes grown on an agar plate (a petri dish that contains a growth medium). The competition was a perfect outlet to create something in tune