Pop-up microscopy

Feb 19, 2024 • 12:36 AM UTC

Stanford, CA, USA

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Workshops and Events

Manu Prakash

I am a faculty at Stanford and run the Prakash Lab at Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. Foldscope community is at the heart of our Frugal Science movement - and I can not tell you how proud I am of this community and grassroots movement. Find our work here: http://prakashlab.stanford.edu

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I am thrilled to share details of a really fun “social-microscopy” event we ran at Stanford university - in collaboration with Stanford Art Institute.

This was possible since Manu, Aaron and Hideo have been talk about bringing Art Institute members and scientists on campus together - in informal ways.

As a foldscope community, we pride ourselves for bringing microscopy in surprising places. I remember a time when Mo Pandorajan brought foldscope to a wedding, when Mohammad in Iraq brought foldscope to a a cycle repair shop - and so forth. The joy of a genuine surprise drives curiosity and we observed this first hand at this event - right under stair cases.

I will write a longer post on what we have seen over the years and how to run your own “pop-up microscopy” session. We would love for this framework to spread.

More soon.
Cheers
Manu

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