Outreach

SESEY (Summer Experience in Science and Engineering for Youth) 2017: How slugs pull - continuous.

Using rubber bands as substrates, high school students Liza Lunina and Sarah Kuykendall found out how a moving slug deformed the substrate to coordinate their motion.

Graduate Students building a demonstration of ECM at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.

SESEY (Summer Experience in Science and Engineering for Youth) 2015: How slugs pull?

High school interns Alina Watt (Oregon) and Teresa Yang (California) worked with us in the summer of 2015 through the SESEY program of OSU. They have measured traction force of slugs using kitchen ingredients. Click the picture below for their poster.

Biological Motion through the Lenses 2014-2015

Supported by the Soeldner Campbell Fund, we have organized yearly workshops for Oregon science educators and students to learn advanced imaging for biological research. More than 50 science teachers, school district officials, high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, and faculties have joined us from the west and central Oregon. We have also made education slides about our imaging systems, see http://dyne.physics.oregonstate.edu/confocal-microscopy/ for details.

SESEY (Summer Experience in Science and Engineering for Youth) 2014: Cancer cells in action.

High school interns Elissa Bloom (Eugean, Oregon) and Lily Wong (Beaverton, Oregon) worked with us in the summer of 2014 through the SESEY program of OSU. Click the picture below for their poster.

SESEY (Summer Experience in Science and Engineering for Youth) 2013: Watching how cells feel a touch.

High school interns Sage Palmedo (Portland, Oregon) and Lisa Karnofski (Kelso, Washington) worked with us in the summer of 2013 through the SESEY program of OSU. Sage Palmedo is currently a senior at Stanford University's Online High School, and Lisa Karnofski is a junior at Kelso High School in Washington. They have managed to fabricate microfluidics device and culture HEK cells to study the calcium response of these cells under flow perturbation. Both of them plan to pursue science in college. Click the picture below for their poster.