Petri dish Petri dish A Petri dish (sometimes spelled "Petrie Dish" and alternatively known as a Petri plate or cell-culture dish), named after the German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri, is a shallow cylindrical glass or plastic lidded dish that biologists use to culture cellssuch as bacteriaor small mosses. Modern Petri dishes usually feature rings and/or slots on their lids and bases so that when stacked, they are less prone to sliding off one another. Multiple dishes can also be incorporated into one plastic container to create a "multi-well plate". While glass Petri dishes may be reused after sterilization (via an autoclave at
Stars of the Lid the duo of McBride and Wiltzie steadily continued with "Gravitational Pull vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life" in 1996, "The Ballasted Orchestra" in 1997, "Per Aspera Ad Astra" in 1998, and "Avec Laudenum" in 1999, as well as the limited edition EP "Maneuvering the Nocturnal Hum" and a split single with Windsor for the Derby, both in 1998. Stars of the Lid then released their first double album, "The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid", in late October 2001. Nearly six years later, the duo released their second double album, "And Their Refinement of the Decline", in April