We had a nice workshop to explore the role biotechnology can play in helping humas expand to space. We played with Physarum spatial computing and with microfluidics with highschool students from Shenzhen.

Long time not posting lab news. COVID made us focus on other things and we forgot to keep up blogging. After some time in Chilean Patagonia, and then in Szeged Hugary many news have accumulated. Most importantly all people related to the lab made it through the epidemic safely.

Student Graduations

Miles is now a Postdoc in the US and his thesis work “Ecological succession and the competition-colonization trade-off in microbial communities” is published in BMC Biology.

Kevin is also now a Postdoc working at the Active Matter Physics group in University of Chile. Janneke and I are currently in Shenzhen China having the time of our lives; more on this soon!

Science Workshop

At Rural School G45 of Puerto Bertrand in Chilean Patagonia, together with “Los Guardianes del Baker” we researched the collective intelligence of the microbes living in the locality. We sample the environment and build synthetic ecosystems to observe them with Open Science Hardware machines we built together.

More on this story here.