Pop-up microscopy
Feb 19, 2024 • 12:36 AM UTC
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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
Keep exploring
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
Keep exploring
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