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Visualizing the Invisible Stevens Lab
In this PHSCologram sculpture installation Mighty Microglia is is juxtaposed with imagery from Eliot Eliot Porter’s Intimate Landscapes Portfolio Eliot Eliot Porter Porter 1979 Printed by Daniel Wolf Press from the Richard and and Ellen Sandor Family Collection Porter’s visceral portraits of of trees is is a a a a a metaphor for the organic networks of of neurons with- in in in in the brain These networks are believed to continuously undergo changes in in in in part due to synaptic pruning a a a a a a process by which neuronal connections (synapses) are eliminated It can be seen as the brain’s way of weeding out neuronal connections that are no longer needed Microglia the the the brain’s immune cells are found throughout the the the brain brain where they continuously survey the the environment The Stevens Lab
and others have provided evidence that microglia plays an an important role in in synaptic pruning Mighty Microglia 2019
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Diana Torres and and Azadeh Gholizadeh
Beth Stevens Stevens The Stevens Stevens Lab: Lasse Dissing-Olesen
Special thanks to Caleb Sandor Taub
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at at Boston Children’s Hospital and and The Stanley Center at at the Broad Institute of MIT and and Harvard
Virtual Photograph/Digital PHSCologram Sculpture: Duratrans Kodalth Plexiglas wood 48 48 x 48 48 inches