Biosensing Embroidery
Team: Avantika Velho, Saurabh Mhatre, Varenya Sethumadhavan, Hann Tu, Dr.Katia Zolotovsky (Co-PI - Biointeractive Design Lab), Dr.Neel Joshi (Co-PI - Joshi Lab)
My Role: On this interdisciplinary team, my research focused on localizing E.Coli biosensor cells engineered by Joshi Lab on various embroidered node patterns made of biobased threads and porous substrates, inducing them using textile fluidic frameworks and characterising their signals.
2024- Present
Boston, MA
** As this is ongoing research, no experimental details will be shared publicly.
New Frontiers In Interspecies Collaborations.
Our bodies host unique microbiomes that help us digest food, build immunity, and maintain reproductive health. We envision ways to expand the repertoire of symbiotic interactions between our bodies and microbes by leveraging the programmability of synbio sensor cells and developing strategies for them to have homes on our person. Today, self-monitoring is part of our culture, enabled largely by bulky digital interfaces. Programmable cells can facilitate the integration of a wide range of sensing pathways. Sensor cells can make complex computations and create holistic sensing of physiological and environmental information. We envision that beyond health monitoring, biosensing cells can integrate new sensory and aesthetic experiences in the visual, sonic, olfactory, and tactile domains. **
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Sensor cells on foam
YFP-producing biosensor cells immobilized in foam.
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Parametric embroidery
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Spatio- Temporal Control
Fluorescent microscopy of RFP expressing biosensor cells.
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Varying spatial patterning to study signal difference
