Lecture series presents 'Frugal Science' March 16
Fermilab's Art & Lecture Series continues with "Frugal Science" by Stanford University professor Manu Prakash at 8 p.m. Friday, March 16, in Ramsey Auditorium, off Pine Street in Batavia.
Tickets are $7. Order tickets online at events.fnal.gov/arts-lecture-series/ or call the box office at (630) 840-ARTS (2787) from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays.
Hear how Prakash is bringing life-changing, cost-effective solutions to real world problems.
Physicists and engineers know how to make stuff. Dr. Prakash's group uses these skills (and field work) to design solutions for extremely resource-constrained settings, especially in the field of global health. His work in this area extends from field diagnostics to hands-on science education.
Prakash leads a curiosity driven research group working in the field of physical biology. Their approach brings together experimental and theoretical techniques from soft-condensed matter physics, fluid dynamics, theory of computation and unconventional micro and nano-fabrication to open problems in biology: from organismal to cellular and molecular scale.
They design and build precision instrumentation including droplet microfluidic tools to probe and perturb biological machines and their synthetic analogues.
Along the way, they invent novel technologies in global health context with clinical applications in extreme resource-poor settings.
Best known for the "foldscope," or low-cost microscope, Dr. Prakash is an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford University.