Microbe Art Competition
winners from the #MicrobeArt2025 competition
Congratulations to @lau_boratorio, the winner of the #MicrobeArt2025 Agar Art category🏆
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2025
Your "Lilo & Stitch" piece, created with microbes, perfectly captures the spirit of 'ohana and art. We love the detail and creativity.
Mahalo for sharing! #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/aIbLEiNRYO
The winner of the #MicrobeArt2025 competition for Best Physical Piece is Forouzan Shafie.
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2025
Your stunning piece, "Invisible Artists," beautifully connects the ancient art of Persian carpet weaving with the unseen world of microbes. An incredible tribute to the "invisible artists". pic.twitter.com/eaKxctlBdz
And the winner for Best Cartoon in the #MicrobeArt2025 competition is... Deyn 🏆 Your submission captures a serious issue—the rapid evolution of AMR in microbes. A perfect blend of scientific insight and witty commentary.
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2025
Well done! #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/Abe1gNfrlH
A huge congratulations to 🎉 @joanacbarbosa 🏆, the winner of the #MicrobeArt2025 Best Poetry award✨ Her heartfelt poem 💖 is a powerful tribute to the unseen beauty 🌿🔬 and importance of microbes, truly celebrating the microbial world 🌎🦠. #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/vJQA1z6ZIt
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2025
Congratulations to Malia Miguel, the winner of the #MicrobeArt2025 competition for Best Painting🎨
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2025
Your acrylic piece, "Biomorph I," beautifully captures the dynamic movement and surreal world of microbes. A truly artistic masterpiece. #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/Jn241uf7lx
🏆Celebrating the Grand Prize winner for #MicrobeArt2025 🏆
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2025
A huge congratulations to Matthias Frank at TU Dresden & Chris Hadfield for your unique submission.
The composite image, merging a Bacillus subtilis biofilm with a night shot of Berlin. pic.twitter.com/ccjKFs8mjr
Congratulations to Matthias Frank at TU Dresden and Chris Hadfield , the winner of the #MicrobeArt2025 competition for Best Photography 📸
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2025
Your incredible composite image of a Bacillus subtilis biofilm and Berlin at night perfectly bridges art and science.
Well Done! pic.twitter.com/pdc8ynp0tr
winners from the #MicrobeArt2024 contest
And the Grand Prize Winner is... 🏆 Congratulations to @eliza_coli for their outstanding artwork in the #MicrobeArt2024 Contest! Your artwork creatively highlights the fight against AMR with cyclopeptides. 🦠 pic.twitter.com/CcfJ7PaP1k
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2024
And the #MicrobeArt2024 winner for Best Painting is @letraspinturas🏆Thank you for showcasing the diversity of lichens in the Philippines and highlighting their role as bioindicators of environmental health.#InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/jMQADfbXTJ
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2024
We are thrilled to announce the winner of the #MicrobeArt2024 Best Photograph category 📸 Congratulations @bioengineering._.life for capturing the hidden beauty and diversity of microorganisms in a way that inspires awe and wonder.🦠 #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/xmeRlJAZsu
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2024
⭐️Best Illustration goes to @itosijess for their captivating video showcasing the fascinating life cycle of Physarum polycephalum! Head over to https://t.co/deq8DIIHEN to see their stunning masterpiece.#MicrobeArt2024 #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/mXKomRCKba
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2024
The Best Writing piece for the #MicrobeArt2024 contest goes to Lara (Raquel Pinto) Amorim!🎉 Congratulations🎉Your poetic words beautifully captured the importance and diversity of our microbial companions. Thank you for sharing your talent and passion with us. pic.twitter.com/z6BOFwd8ci
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2024
Drumroll please... the winner of our #MicrobeArt2024 best #AgarArt category is @fb.uner! We loved your creative petri dish masterpiece. Keep up the amazing work 🎉🦠🎨 #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/qMXxpESux4
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2024
We are excited to announce the winner of the #MicrobeArt2024 Best Cartoon! Congratulations @Koushik200210 for your hilarious and informative cartoon about the dangers of turning off your refrigerator to save energy.🚫🔌🦠 #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/pj2frLzlGq
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2024
Congratulations @MaryseBerkhout you are the winner of the #MicrobeArt2024 Best Physical Piece submission! Your creative and unique crocheted artwork, "Microbe-mucus interactions," captures the complexity and beauty of these biological processes.#InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/zDj9M01xZs
— International Microorganism Day (@IntMicroDay) September 17, 2024
winners from the #MicrobeArt2023 contest
📢 And the Grand Prize Winner of #MicrobeArt2023 goes too.. Olivia Mrozinski! Such a creative piece 🎨 Many congratulations! #InternationalMicroorganismDay @IntMicroDay pic.twitter.com/PQgeHGeHcp
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2023
The time has come to announce our #MicrobeArt2023 winners! 🥁🥁
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2023
The best #AgarArt goes to Gamadaia 🦠 We all loved your entry "from infinitely large, to infinitely small, the great discoveries" 🎉 #InternationalMicroorganismDay @IntMicroDay pic.twitter.com/44Qr437HKA
Artistry meets craftsmanship! 🎨✂️ We're delighted to announce the winner of the #MicrobeArt2023 Best Physical Piece. Congratulations Wannes Van Holm 👏👏 Your 3D-printed biofilm phone case was one of a kind!#InternationalMicroorganismDay @IntMicroDay pic.twitter.com/PaP33hG3lQ
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2023
We're thrilled to announce the winner of the #MicrobeArt2023 Best Photograph category 📸 Congratulations Jeffer Brendon for capturing the interaction between plant and fungus! 🦠 #InternationalMicroorganismDay @IntMicroDay pic.twitter.com/sZU0XwpOpf
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2023
We're excited to unveil the winner of the #MicrobeArt2023 Best Cartoon! 🥁
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2023
Congratulations Sopida Wongwas (@sopidayy)! 👏👏 Your cartoon appreciating microbes' incredible diversity and their vital functions was superb! #InternationalMicroorganismDay @IntMicroDay pic.twitter.com/GII7x75qn1
📢 The best Illustration for #MicrobeArt2023 goes to is @Giulia_Ghisleni! 👏👏 We all loved your illustration showing the threads of life! #InternationalMicroorganismDay @IntMicroDay pic.twitter.com/LrOrGx54kb
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2023
The best writing in #MicrobeArt2023 goes to Joana Barbosa (@joanacbarbosa)! 🎉 We all enjoyed reading your micro poem dedicated to all our micro heroes! #InternationalMicroorganismDay @IntMicroDay pic.twitter.com/81znt8YNvW
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2023
winners from the #MicrobeArt2022 contest
📢 Now, the Grand Prize Winner of #MicrobeArt2022
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS Sergio Martínez (@Serchidoglucano)! Fantastic work there on your microbe #cartoons 🦠 We all truly loved all of your entries! @intmicroday #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/ayYEaTLIvH
The best Physical Piece for #MicrobeArt2022 goes to 🥁 🥁 the team at Life Sciences ITE CE. Your mosaic art work was fantastic!@intmicroday #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/5QZpq57gaj
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2022
Who is the winner of the #MicrobeArt2022 best #photography? 📷 📷 The votes have been counted! Congratulations go to Wolfgang Hinterdobler (@HinterdoblerW) for his fungus photography compilation. Amazing work! 👏@intmicroday #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/b2mz3V08KA
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2022
The best #cartoon for #MicrobeArt2022 goes to Luca Tonietti (@Antiprotony)!! 🥂 Such a wonderful idea to create a new "Marvel Like" cartoon Villain: Capt. V. cholerae ✨@intmicroday #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/JSrB2bDs9I
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2022
Time has come to announce our #MicrobeArt2022 winners!
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2022
And the best #AgarArt goes to 🥁 🥁 @isomerase1! We all loved your entry 🎉 @intmicroday #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/WiVZQ8m54f
📢 The best #illustration or #painting for MicrobeArt2022 goes to Aparrajitha Viswanathan 👏 👏 Such a wonderful entry using watercolor! Congratulations!@intmicroday #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/efwxix1tNI
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2022
winners from the #MicrobeArt2021 contest
📢 Now, the Grand Prize Winner of #MicrobeArt2021 🥁🥁🥁
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2021
Well done Lieke van Gijtenbeek (@lieke_ann)! We all loved your #Lactococcus cell #painting 🎉@intmicroday #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/P38JipnXZr
The #MicrobeArt2021 judjing panel has submitted its votes! 🙌
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 16, 2021
The best #AgarArt goes to 🥁🥁 Stefania Rizzelli (@rizzellis) for her art "Bacillaceae and yeasts isolated in dairy products". Congratulations 🎉
@IntMicroDay #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/MyFYiu6dZV
This was a tough one! The best physical piece for #MicrobeArt2021 goes to 🥁🥁🥁 Bacterfield! A strategy board game having at its core bacterial behaviour! 🎉
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2021
You can find them on Instagram @bacterfield_game 😉
International Microorganism Day International Microorganism Day pic.twitter.com/U00WK64Ln6
📢 And now, the category with the most submissions this year!
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2021
The best #illustration or #painting for #MicrobeArt2021 goes to... Tristan Young (Instagram: @tristan_studioart) and his art "microbial landscape: predation" 👏👏@intmicroday #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/V7FuwSWLAv
📢 And the best #cartoon for #MicrobeArt2021 goes to
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 16, 2021
John Chilton (@axonology) 👏👏 We loved your vector of the first online microbe: e-coli! 🦠@IntMicroDay #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/3Fke6K7WQt
We always love to see your #MicrobeArt2021 #photography 📷 but only one can be the winner!
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2021
Congratulations Ian Jones (https://t.co/qbXw99Qi0Z) 🎉 for your wonderfull arrangement of diatoms in memory of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek! 🔬@IntMicroDay #InternationalMicroorganismDay pic.twitter.com/OAb7XcKUFx
winners from the #MicrobeArt2020 contest
📢 Now, the Grand Prize Winner of #MicrobeArt2020 🥁🥁🥁
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2020
CONGRATULATIONS @AnnaDumitriu! 🏆 We loved so many of your pieces!! pic.twitter.com/SK6eYNDbqE
📢📢 #MicrobeArt2020 winner announcement for best #AgarArt
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2020
Congratulations @NoemieMatthey for your amazing agar design using bacteria isolated from human mouth/skin! pic.twitter.com/EgS8L4O9mQ
The #MicrobeArt2020 winner for best #Illustration & #Painting is Sarah Adkins-Jablonsky (@admiraladkins)!! 🎆
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2020
Many congrats for your illustration “Pathogenicity Island” using #AgarArt of the Serratia 👏 pic.twitter.com/89FRMvgJsK
Congratulations to Mena Rabago 👏 You are the winner of the best Physical Piece for #MicrobeArt2020.
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2020
Fantastic work and effort in illustrating the Mycobiome! 🎉🎉
See the original post here:https://t.co/USCAV2J961 pic.twitter.com/MmSvcYoVDr
The winner of the #MicrobeArt2020 best #Photography is Mout De Vrieze (@MoutDv) 🎉 🎉
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2020
Super well done for your snapshot of Phytophthora infestans "Walking on the moon"! pic.twitter.com/V5bSuoMep8
And the winner of the best #cartoon for #MicrobeArt2020 is Joana Carvalho (@joana_gcc) 👏👏
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2020
Well done! We all loved your creation on the disruption of #microbiota diversity. pic.twitter.com/NnwelnvaAh
The best writing for #MicrobeArt2020 goes to Chris Gaylarde! 🎉
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2020
Congratulations! We all enjoyed reading your ‘Wonderment’ poem. You can find his poem along with other great writings on @ibbs_online.https://t.co/pzrdxCFCDK pic.twitter.com/0veXu62I59
winners from the #MicrobeArt2019 contest
Now, the Grand Prize Winner of #MicrobeArt2019 - for us the sheer beauty, skillful composition, colour palette, technical skill, and the scientific and microbiological content of "Decoding the Gut Microbiome" by Jane Hartman (@trilobiteglass) was unparalleled... CONGRATULATIONS! pic.twitter.com/XXdQojCdzk
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2019
The third category of #MicrobeArt2019 is for Illustration & Painting. There were so many amazing pieces of art here, but the final winner goes to Johannes Wöstemeyer (@parabsidia) for his oil on canvas: The Mucor-related microscopic fungus Absidia glauca.https://t.co/M9wVoRgmko pic.twitter.com/hh8Zdodw90
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2019
The penultimate category for #MicrobeArt2019 is for writing! The winner has been judged to be this brilliant song to #Candida by Marija Ivanov (@masHasHa1) - fantastic work!!https://t.co/QolUyZ80Lh pic.twitter.com/l0fOlFbYxB
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2019
After the votes from the judging panel have been counted, the winner of the #AgarArt category for #MicrobeArt2019 is this beautiful piece by @NoemieMatthey - Well done!!!pic.twitter.com/d6Daku8XqX pic.twitter.com/Eyat4llQkD
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2019
The final category is for Video entries to #MicrobeArt2019 - this one was entered on Instagram by Eliza Wolfson (@eliza_coli) and it is just the cutest animation of #BinaryFission we could ever imagine! #InternationalMicroorganismDayhttps://t.co/CGam1R1yY2 pic.twitter.com/8GLTj6QTVX
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2019
The fourth category of #MicrobeArt2019 is for the best Photograph! The winner here is... @TomMcLean05 with this fantastic photography of #Streptomyces for#InternationalMicroorganismDayhttps://t.co/j6P91om0kk pic.twitter.com/CD3mOOklHh
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2019
And now to announce the winner of the Cartoon category for #MicrobeArt2019 ...
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2019
the winner is.... @NoemieMatthey AGAIN with this amazing comic book style art! - super well done for winning this and the #AgarArt category! #InternationalMicroorganismDayhttps://t.co/IFtT05AMHm
The 5th category for #MicrobeArt2019 is for the best Physical Piece. There were some unbelievable entries to the competition here, but the winner is "Decoding the Gut Microbiome" a fused glass panel, by Jane Hartman (@trilobiteglass) - congratulations!https://t.co/QhVazMExh1 pic.twitter.com/jxHNH33gMI
— FEMS (@FEMSmicro) September 17, 2019