Canada Research Chair and Biophysicist Dr. Nirosha Murugan is a Canada Research Chair and interdisciplinary scientist who uses a top-down approach to understand how cells and tissues communicate with each other and their environment toward healthy form function.
Taviss hunts for physarum, aka “slime mold” with expert extraordinaire, Dr. Nirosha Murugan. Taviss is shocked to learn that physarum grows, eats, and makes decisions!? Together, they take a sample of the physarum and head to the lab, where they see the strange organism solve a maze all on its own.
Nirosha Murugan, Wilfrid Laurier University, is using the Optica Foundation Challenge grant to develop a new light-based imaging platform to non-invasively detect early-stage cancer and chemotherapy-related cognitive impacts.