Wellcome Image of the Month
14/01/12 15:35
In the lab, Fernan Fedrici and Marcia Sartor have dehydrated drops of Malbec wine from their home province of Mendoza, Argentina, before using polarizing light microscopy to capture this striking image, which has been selected as Image of the Month at the Wellcome Trust Image Collection. Fernan comes from a family of wine growers, and he and Marcia have been exploring connections between everyday materials and science, using advanced imaging and visualising techniques. For his day job, Fernan is building new systems for engineering morphogenesis in plants in the Haseloff lab. Marcia is an artist, and more of her work can be seen here, and more of Fernan’s images can be seen here.