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 any new material. Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie have both released material outside of Stars of the Lid. McBride released his first solo album "When the Detail Lost Its Freedom" in November 2005, then released "The Effective Disconnect" in October 2010, which serves as a soundtrack to the documentary "Vanishing of the Bees", a film about colony collapse disorder. McBride teamed up with musician Kenneth James Gibson and began recording and releasing new music under the name Bell Gardens; their debut EP "Hangups Need Company" was released in May 2010, their first full-length album "Full Sundown Assembly" followed in November