A Flying leaf - Phacus sp.

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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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On a bike expedition across a park in Amsterdam - we ran into this wonderful euglenoid. You can see the eye spot (red) and an incredible leaf like structure of this beautiful algae. A delight to watch it gracefully cut the water.

Keep exploring.
Manu

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