A sample of what is coming can be found in the (highly popular!) galleries below, containing over 1,400 pictures and movies of microfluidic devices, cellular micropatterns, microstructures, and cells in general (most unpublished, often unpublishable to be honest, but all free for you to download and enjoy -- keep visiting, we add new pictures almost every week!):

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The FolchLabART is growing! We have now organized two art exhibits in Seattle and one more is underway in Barcelona for March 2010... Below are the pictures from the exhibit in the Harborview Hospital in Seattle. (yes it's for sale and it's selling well!) :-) If you are interested in buying high-resolution prints, we make them available on canvas (a less expensive packaging process than paper and framing) through SeattleOnCanvas. It makes a great gift, and it supports education!

The nervous system is formed of vastly complex networks of cells. The connectivity changes in time by the second (during development and during learning) and depends on microscale cellular and molecular scaffolds and gradients. Clearly, these spatiotemporal variations cannot be accurately addressed with traditional cell culture methods based on seeding cells over a homogeneous substrate and bathing them with a homogeneous solution. Are you homogeneous?

We design and use microfluidic devices and micropatterned substrates to better mimic the real microenvironment of nerve cells when we culture them outside of the organism. We are microfluidic!

Examples of questions that interest us (and where we have successfully shown the potential of the technology already) are how neurons find their targets during development (axon guidance), how they establish their connections (synaptogenesis), and how we sense odors (olfaction), among other projects.
For more details on our research projects, ENTER here >>

NEW! Click on FolchLabART to learn more about our ART outreach activities. Interested in purchasing our art? Go to SeattleOnCanvas.

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