Andrew J Woolley, PhD

There are now large microscopy art prints decorating the walls at Symic Bio HQ.  Including 'selfies' below to help convey the scale of the prints.  These are printed from imaging data collected by myself in support of projects at Symic Bio.  Special thanks to the amazing Danielle Herrerias (Dir. of Human Resources) and Jocelyn Jackson (CFO) for their help and support!

Endothelial cells

Lung tissue

Microfluidic channels from an assay

CNS tissue

Happy to be a part of this leading opinion review paper, lead by Melissa Knothe-Tate and published in the journal Biomaterials, on complex issues regarding different implanted device-tissue interfaces: 'Engineering and commercialization of human-device interfaces, from bone to brain'. (link)

Excited to be second-author on friend and mentee Aaron Gilmour's excellent cell culture technology review paper in the journal Biomaterials; 'A critical review of cell culture strategies for modelling intracortical brain implant material reactions'. (link)

New York Times has an interesting article (link) about imaging individual specimens and whole shelves of insects at the Berlin Museum of Natural History.  The video does a good job of demonstrating an automated 'focus stacking' system, where small specimens are imaged by taking many photos while gradually walking the small depth-of-field so an 'in-focus' pictures has been taken of each part of the specimen.  Software then combines images to produce a clear final image. Good video, and some very cool images!