Today we had the second microfluidics half-day for the SynBio students. We really enjoyed our time with them, and hope they enjoyed it too. Thanks to our “training” yesterday, we were able to speed up things a bit, with the result that the students managed to extract tracks of swimming microalgae from their movies (this is a step further than just recognising the position of microorganisms in individual frames).

Three extra guests joined the students: Munehiro Asally, a newly recruited Assistant Professor in Life Sciences here at Warwick; Paul MacDonald, a new Ph.D. student of Alfonso Jaramillo; and Christopher de Wolf, a technician/researcher from Orkun Soyer’s lab.