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Illuminating Research at Oregon

2020 Research as Art Exhibition

sponsored by the UO Institute of Neuroscience

Thaís de Faria In this image, a mixture was being prepared to be purified. The silica that remained formed a spiral shape. This project's ultimate goal is to create small molecule receptors that monitor biologically relevant anions.

$Cruz Godar We think of fractals as 2D images, but 3D ones exist too. This is the Mandelbulb, arguably the most famous. Its features are infinitely detailed, and yet its overall structure is comprehensible — and beautiful.$

Rachael Klaiss This flake of hBN—a 2D material with unique mechanical and quantum properties—is thinner than the wavelength of visible light. Layers of varying thickness appear different colors, which helps us find flakes to study. Rachael Klaiss,

Monika Ruwaimana Peat soil core samples with various stage of decay from Borneo, Indonesia. Radiocarbon dates shows that this peatland is 49000 years old, which put it as the oldest extant peatland in the world. Monika Ruwaimana, Daniel Gavin, Gus

Jen Michel Neuronal marker messenger RNAs expressed in a 5-day old zebrafish brain, visualized by fluorescence in situ hybridization using confocal microscopy.

Josh Roering Airborne lidar image of Willamette River landforms near Salem, Oregon.

James M. Watkins Crystals with the same unit cell can take on different shapes. This SEM image of pure CaCO3 crystals shows some rhombohedral crystals, some scalenohedral (soccer ball) crystals, some cubic edges, and some wavy terraces. Marisa D.

Terra Hiebert Small and humble worm-like animals produce these charming larvae called actinotrochs. This proud and hungry larva is less than 1 mm tall. With a belly full of red algae, it reaches for more (lower right).

$Emily Owen This is a sample of fractal layering meant to resemble nature. Understanding the geometry of our natural environment is vital because we split our time between natural and unnatural environments. Emily Owen, Margaret Sereno, Kelly Roble$

Michael Hurst Although these organometallic complexes are made from the same metal (palladium), attached chemical groups drastically affect appearance and behavior. These striking colors can provide insight into structure and bonding.

Thomas Desvignes “Some light in the dark, deep-water of Antarctica”. This specimen of dragonfish Akarotaxis nudiceps was captured 700 meter deep and fluorescent lights revealed its true colors.

Jens Noeckel Optical waves trapped in a photonic circuit - an analogue to electronics, but with light instead of electrons. Order and chaos coexist, posing new questions in quantum chaos theory. Jens Noeckel and Kahli Burke

Conor Rowland In an experiment exploring the biocompatibility of carbon nanotubes (green) with retinal neurons (yellow), we have taken this micrograph using a scanning electron microscope and examined the health of the network. Conor Rowland, Will

Amy Robbins Finding that perfect color combination for this zebrafish caudal fin evokes Andy Warhol vibes! This 14-day old fish was phalloidin stained for actin muscle fibers and transgenically expressed GFP in mature bone cells.

Ellen K. Olsen This high-magnification SEM image of a disjointed, stepped calcium carbonate crystal surface depicting adjacent smooth and rough crystal faces allows us to better understand how minerals grow. Marisa D. Acosta, Molly E. Pickerel, El

Ellen Eischen Which shapes can be drawn with an unmarked straightedge and compass, if all edges must be the same length and all angles the same? The answer is tied to "Gaussian periods," certain sets plotted here.

$Margaret Sereno Abstract fractal images activate brain regions involved in processing familiar objects and trigger object percepts (red outlines) similar to identifying familiar shapes in natural fractal objects (e.g., clouds, rocks). Margaret Ser$

$Andy Huchala Fractals are special pictures with repeated motifs. An Abelian Sandpile model achieves this by toppling piles of sand. Coloring it by height helps visualize the resulting fractal structure. Zoom in to see more patterns!$

Pragalv Karki Crystal face (feat. Fido Dido) made using vibrational modes of designer acoustic crystals. Sound waves can be manipulated programmatically in acoustic crystals with uses in waveguides, acoustic lensing, & computation.

Luis Perez-Morales All trajectories between an amino acid chain (e.g. AAA) and a mutated amino acid chain (e.g. TTT) through single mutations (A to T). The graph shows a 12-site chain, 4,096 combinations, and 479,001,600 paths. Perez-Morales, Luis

Victor Lewis Connecting digital transcriptomic profiles (upper-left) with live fluorescent imaging (lower) at cellular resolution to reveal how mesenchyme (magenta) supports bone (green) regeneration in zebrafish caudal fin.

Kiana Kawamura X-ray crystallography looks at individual atoms and how they are organized in the solid state. This crystal structure of a nickel complex wasn't what I anticipated, showing me that reagents reacted in unexpected ways!

Saba Moslehi Fluorescence image of retinal glia penetrating Si gaps between carbon nanotube rows. Mechanical cues can guide glia to desired locations on a chip. This can improve the interactions between implants and retinal cells. Saba Moslehi, Co

Heather Le Bleu Chimera zebrafish that is composed of two genetically distinct type of cells. Dashed red line outlines overgrown fin tissue that consists of donor cells. This research investigates how organ size and shape is controlled. Heather Le

Willem Griffiths Mouse retinal cell network extends across carbon nanotube forests. Blue neuronal cell bodies and orange processes accentuate scanning electron microscopy. This bionic implant prototype is designed to restore vision. Willem Griffit

Jeff Cina This plot shows a calculated "fissors spectrum," predicting how a molecular vibration would respond to a sequence of ultrashort pulses of laser light as a means of tracking the molecule's changing shape.

Chris Sinclair These are my working notes for the last couple of months.

Rebecca Bussard Colors of change! The map shows the area around Mt. St. Helens and and how the ground is rising and sinking slightly in different locations. The data spans 2015-2020 and was developed using radar imaging from satellites. Rebecca Bu

Peter GIlkey This is a picture of the geodesic structure of an almost affine Zoll manifold. It was created using Mathematica to illustrate the only known almost affine Zoll structure. It can be wrapped up to form a cylinder. Peter GIlkey and Ekate

Hazel Fargher A Research Misstep: useful information about the success of an organic reaction is obscured by an imprint of my shoe.

Derek McBride Video next slide: This project uses a coding algorithm made with Python to plot prime numbers in a certain range in the polar plane and to represent the difference between to consecutive prime numbers by the color it uses.

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Dean Walton Video next slide: An infrared image taken at night showing the heat generated by a flying great blue heron.

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Dennis Nestvogel Video next slide: 3D animation of an excitatory neuron from the mouse brain. After electrophysiological recordings, we apply staining techniques and confocal microscopy to identify the neurons in which we measured electric activity

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Thomas Giachetti Video next slide: A Pumice Odyssey: fly-through a pumice from Newberry Volcano, Oregon, obtained by X-Ray Tomography. The pumice proving to be an aggregate provides new insight into eruptive processes occurring in the conduit of a

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Nick Sattler Video next slide: In this color-inverted video, light beams emanating from the optic disc reveal the structure of a mouse’s retina. This new method enables the visual field of mice to be mapped in 3-dimensional space for the first time

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Aqsa Khan Video next slide: My video creates awareness and acknowledgement of the Gandharan materials present at the JSMA, so that the works of my ancestors is not forgotten in these foreign soils. Anne Rose Kitagawa

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Robert Dennis Video next slide: How sparsely can you pack marbles into a box so that when you shake it, they don't rattle around? The answer is as sparsely as you want! We connect a series of stable bridges and longer bridges means lower density.

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Scott Fisher Obtained at Pine Mountain Observatory, this time-lapse shows the 18-mile wide asteroid ‘Rebekka’ occulting a star as it orbits the Sun. The images in the GIF are used to create a 3D model of the non-spherical asteroid. Scott Fisher, R

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