A Fluid-Walled Microfluidic Platform to Study Human Neuron Microcircuitry

In this episode of Discover ASAP, Ricardo Márquez Gómez, a postdoc on the Collaborative Research Network’s (CRN) Team Cragg, who focuses on generating circuits using iPSCs, joins Madeline Klinger, PhD, associate program officer at ASAP, to discuss their scalable microfluidic platform, created to study human neuron microcircuitry, connectivity, and regeneration in vitro.

0:25 - About Team Cragg
0:47 - How Team Cragg aims to impact Parkinson’s disease (PD)
2:16 - About the microfluidic platform
4:35 - Advantages of this platform
8:00 - How this platform enables a greater understanding of PD
10:02 - Using the platform
12:16 - The importance of collaboration

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