People’s Choice, 2018

This light micrograph shows cells of Chlorella vulgaris, a type of green algae, growing in a microfluidics device. This reusable algae-on-a-chip technology permits the high-throughput screening of cultures by mixing media with algae and mineral oil to generate uniformly-sized microdroplets. More than 600 microdroplets can be captured across multiple channels, allowing for the simultaneous observation and analysis of 100’s of unique experiments on a very short time scale. This image represents a collaboration of the Manning Laboratory, UTEX Culture Collection of Algae, Dr. Arum Han at Texas A&M-College Station, and Dr. Hesham Shafik at the University of Port Said, Egypt.

Credit:
Marwa Aly
Visiting Doctoral Student, Department of Molecular Biosciences