Brains!

 Last fall I went on a recruiting trip to the SACNAS conference to recruit for our OUHSC Biomedical Sciences PhD program.  

To help brighten up our university's booth, I decided to make a few brain quilts to hang.  I didn't really have much time, but I got a couple of our micrographs and had them printed on fun shiny fabric at spoonflower.

I had four prints on the big yard of fabric, I always try to optimize my prints when I do custom spoonflower orders.  The bottom left is a coronal section of the mouse brain stained for blood vessels and the other three are mult-photon micrographs of mouse brain blood vessels taken while through a coverslip mounted on our mouse's skull while the mouse is still alive (so we can measure vessel function).

The two small ones I finished at 12x12 and mounted on wooden frames.  These were raffle giveaways at the booth and were a big hit.

And here are the other two that we hung in the booth that are a big bigger.  They're not super creative in the sense that I just quilted the fabric pictures, but they were fun to hang in the booth.  At some point I'd like to cut these two up and do something more creative with them but for now they're just rolled up in the closet!!