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HOMEs for plants and microbes - a phenotyping approach with quantitative control of signaling between organisms and their individual environments.
Lab on a chip - 13 Feb 2018
Siemianowski Oskar, Lind Kara R, Tian Xinchun, Cain Matt, Xu Songzhe, Ganapathysubramanian Baskar, Cademartiri Ludovico
Abstract excerpt
We describe a simple, scalable, modular, and frugal approach to create model ecosystems as millifluidic networks of interconnected habitats (hosting microbes or plants), which offers (i) quantitative and dynamic control over the exchange of chemicals between habitats, and (ii) independent control over their environment. Oscillatory laminar flows produce regions of vortex mixing around obstacles. When these...
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