At the Mansy Lab, Amy Spencer is developing protocolls with micro-fluidics to manufacture vesicles, using oils and water. Fluorescent dye is added to help with visualisation under the microscope.
Sheref Mansy
Sheref Mansy obtained his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Ohio State University. After a postdoctoral position in the laboratory of Jack W. Szostak at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Sheref was awarded a career development award from the Giovanni Armenise-Harvard foundation. He joined the University of Trento as an Assistant Professor of biochemistry in 2009. His research interests are in the development of in vitro reconstructions of life-like systems.
www.smansy.org
Sascha Pohflepp
Sascha Pohflepp is an artist, designer and writer, born in 1978 in Cologne, Germany. He holds a degree in Media Art from the Universität der Künste Berlin and an MA from Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London. He is interested in past and future technologies, notions of art, business and idealism, what they mean to us and how they inform which worlds come true and which worlds are discarded. He aims to create social objects in which we can see ourselves differently. For the past five years he has been contributing to Webby-winning art and technology blog We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com. Most recently, his work has been shown at the Wellcome Trust London, the V&A Museum and he received a special mention at the 2010 VIDA award for art and artificial life and was nominated for FutureEverything 2010. He is currently spending the summer as a research resident at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles.abbc
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