Petri dish art printed on a coffee mug.
Iris 8, Yellow Gene modified yeast on YPD agar w/ charcoal Painted: September 7, 2023 Cooled: September 11, 2023 Photographed: September 14, 2023
Iris 8, Yellow Gene modified yeast on YPD agar w/ charcoal Painted: September 7, 2023 Cooled: September 11, 2023 Photographed: September 14, 2023
Orchid 4, Purple Gene modified yeast on YPD agar w/ titanium dioxide Painted: September 7, 2023 Cooled: September 11, 2023 Photographed: September 14, 2023
Orchid 4, Purple Gene modified yeast on YPD agar w/ titanium dioxide Painted: September 7, 2023 Cooled: September 11, 2023 Photographed: September 14, 2023
“Biogenetic Blooms: Collaborations with Genetically Modified Yeast” is a series of floral inspired paintings made with genetically modified Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae, commonly known as “Baker’s yeast”) on Petri dishes.

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“Biogenetic Blooms: Collaborations with Genetically Modified Yeast” is a series of floral inspired paintings made with genetically modified Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae, commonly known as “Baker’s yeast”) on Petri dishes. The color palette in these paintings is composed of strains of S. cerevisiae engineered by the Boeke lab at NYU and Amino Bio in Canada. The colors of the palette include yeast engineered to express colored proteins from the DNA sequences of jellyfish (pink and fluorescent green), sea anemone (blue), coral (purple), and proteins from the metabolic pathways of violacein (found in bacteria; black and gray) and beta carotene (found in carrots, sweet potatoes, and red peppers; yellow, orange, and red).

Record details

Category
Art, Design, Technology
Release Date
15 April 2025
Catalog number
BGB001

“Orchid and Iris” mug

Created by
Karen Ingram
KI

Petri dish art painted with gene edited yeast, photographed and printed on a limited edition coffee mug. These paintings were part of the “Embodied Futures and the Ecology of Care” exhibition at BioBAT Art Space. Pictured on either side are "Orchid 4, Purple" and "Iris 8, Yellow."

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Limited run of 10