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🏆 Congratulations to Nayya, the Overall Winner of #MicrobeArt2026! 🎨🦠✨
🌟 “The Missing Piece” 🧩| Acrylic on Canvas | 40 × 60 cm
Selected as the overall winning entry, The Missing Piece is a powerful reflection on the vast microbial world that remains undiscovered.
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🏆 Congratulations to Jiya Joshi for winning the Agar Art category of the #MicrobeArt2026 competition! 🦠
A passionate high school student with a love for agar art, Jiya created Tree of Life, an inspiring piece made using Serratia marcescens.
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Congratulations to Maryse Berkhout for winning the physical piece category of the #MicrobeArt2026 competition! 🏆🧶🔬
This imaginative artwork showcases how science and creativity can come together to engage audiences of all ages and celebrate the fascinating microbial world.
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Microbial literacy isn't just about knowing what microbes are. It's about learning to understand complexity, question assumptions, & evaluate evidence. Could learning about microbes help us become better critical thinkers?
Read our blog to learn more: buff.ly/6NfRUue
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🏆 Congratulations to Tasha Sturm (@tasturm1) as the winner of the Photography category📸🦠
Created by swabbing the bottom of shoes, this striking image reveals the hidden beauty and unexpected artistry of microbial growth.
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🏆 Congratulations to Tamanna Bordoloi, winner of the cartoon category in #MicrobeArt2026! ✏️🦠
🌟 “VIP Access to Resistance”
This creative artwork shines a spotlight on one of the most important challenges in microbiology: antimicrobial resistance.
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🦠🎉 Happy International Microorganism Day! 🎉🦠
A huge thank you to all our IMD event hosts for taking part in this year's celebrations. 🌍 📸 Don't forget to share your events, activities, and discoveries throughout the day using #InternationalMicroorganismDay @IntMicroDay.
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🦠 IMD is tomorrow! 🌍
🎉 Explore the activities and events taking place and discover how you can get involved in this global celebration of microbiology.
📚 Planning your own IMD event? We have got plenty of resources to help you make it a success🔗 buff.ly/JEt4RdX
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More incredible creativity is landing in our inbox every day!
Have you submitted your entry to the #MicrobeArt2026 competition yet? Share your microorganism-inspired masterpiece by 10 Sept for a chance to be featured and celebrated as part of IMD.
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ALT Agar art by Abdur Rashid Khan
ALT by Dr Tamanna Bordoloi
ALT Photographs of Petri dish featuring microbial colonies by Diana Schlettová
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🌍 IMD 2026 continues to grow as a global celebration of microbiology.
We are pleased to announce our final event hosts from Argentina, Australia, Iran, Estonia, Colombia, Ukraine, Tunisia, Indonesia, Venezuela, the USA, and Iraq.
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🌍We are excited to announce that submissions for IMD 2026 are now open, alongside the launch of our newly redesigned website. ✨
Explore the new website, share your event proposal, and be part of the excitement as we celebrate IMD 2026 together.
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#WorldHealthDay highlights the urgent need for new antibiotics. From microbes to mammoths, scientists are uncovering antimicrobial compounds in unexpected places, including ancient DNA.
Read how past & present biology shapes infection treatment: buff.ly/PZoYtvy
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🧬 Could the gut help explain rising colon cancer rates in young adults?
Our latest blog written by Zehra Esra explores how changes in the microbiome might be part of the story.
🔍 Read the full blog:
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Bringing a science lab to a rural school.
Raquel Branquinho shares how a project in Portugal gave students hands-on access to microbiology. The result: curiosity sparked, questions asked, and a new way of seeing the microbial world.
👉 Read more: buff.ly/jNOcfJp
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🏆Celebrating the Grand Prize winner for #MicrobeArt2025 🏆
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.
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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 🌎🦠.
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Congratulations to Matthias Frank at TU Dresden and Chris Hadfield , the winner of the #MicrobeArt2025 competition for Best Photography 📸
Your incredible composite image of a Bacillus subtilis biofilm and Berlin at night perfectly bridges art and science.
Well Done!
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Congratulations to Malia Miguel, the winner of the #MicrobeArt2025 competition for Best Painting🎨
Your acrylic piece, "Biomorph I," beautifully captures the dynamic movement and surreal world of microbes. A truly artistic masterpiece.
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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.
Well done! #InternationalMicroorganismDay
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Congratulations to @lau_boratorio, the winner of the #MicrobeArt2025 Agar Art category🏆
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
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