Petri Dish With Cells

A petri dish is a shallow, lidded dish used to culture cells, bacteria, fungi, or other microorganisms on a layer of growth medium such as agar. In figures it represents any culture or plating step, so it is one of the most reused microbiology icons in protocols and graphical abstracts.

Describe the dish to SciFig — for example a top-down petri dish with scattered bacterial colonies, or an angled dish showing a confluent cell layer. SciFig generates a clean, editable petri dish you can relabel and recolor, instead of drawing the circular dish, lid, and colonies by hand.

It shows cells or colonies growing on a culture medium inside the dish. Depending on the figure it can represent a primary cell culture, a bacterial streak plate, colony counting, or a contamination check — the same icon is reused across many microbiology workflows.

Yes. Generate the petri dish in SciFig, then export it as a transparent PNG for slides and posters, or vectorize it into clean editable SVG to relabel and restyle every element before exporting for publication.

You generate your own petri dish with SciFig and use it in your publications, posters, and presentations. Because each image is generated for your figure, you are not reusing a stock asset — you create and edit exactly the dish your figure needs.

An icon is a simple, compact petri dish used as a visual element in a larger figure, while a labeled diagram calls out the lid, base, agar, and colonies for teaching or methods sections. SciFig can generate either — a minimal icon or a fully labeled petri dish diagram.