NeuroWoodworks

An #astrocyte carved out of a piece of walnut wood and mounted on a big chunk of red oak. This piece is available for purchase!

Walnut pyramidal #neuron of the day.

The awesome might of a raging supercell with a wedge tornado at night in the Nebraska Sandhills, April 27, 2025. #newx

Merci!!!!

New version of the neuron humming bird. It is composed of 12 independent #neuron cells manually cut out of wood. This piece will be donated to @SfNOttawa for an auction 🇨🇦. The back is bubinga wood. The humming bird is made out of walnut, padauk, maple (obviously 🍁) and cherry woods.

Thank you!!! It was a lot of fun to make.

I made a 3D model of an hippocampal pyramidal neuron using walnut wood.
#sciart #neuro

Excited to present my newest piece “Hippocampe neuronal #2”. A seahorse made out of 16 individual neurons manually cut out of various woods: walnut, cherry, padauk and maple.

#brain #sciart #science #neurology #art

Excited to present my newest piece “Hippocampe neuronal #2”. A seahorse made out of 16 individual neurons manually cut out of various woods: walnut, cherry, padauk and maple.

#brain #sciart #science #neurology #art

Thank you! It was fun to make.

I made this mitochondrion wood piece yesterday. #sciart #biology

... In the brain, it appears that many Wdr45 KO axon terminals are massively swollen, presenting with spheroids. These spheroids are sometimes the size of several nuclei, they appear in all brain areas, and as soon as 14 days after birth for certain cells.

The most striking takeaway from our BPAN model is that WDR45 loss impacts many neuron subtypes: Purkinje, dopaminergic, noradrenergic, and most, if not all, interneuron subtypes. Their cell bodies look totally normal (!), but their axon terminals are really messed up...

This BPAN model shows vocalization defects in the first few days after birth, as well as long-lasting motor defects appearing after 3 months. Many defects are also seen in heterozygous females, which models the BPAN patient population most accurately.

Excited to share a new article from the lab, with grateful support from @SanfordResearch and @Dont4getMorgan!

frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

BPAN is a devastating neurodegenerative #raredisease. Here, we characterize a mouse model mimicking a patient mutation. A thread...

Beautiful sky tonight in Sioux Falls.

Epoxy mitochondrion. This piece is available. neurowoodworks.com/art/5021389

Dorsal root ganglion #neuron sculpture. Made with walnut wood. #sciart.

My install at Cornell’s department of natural resources, featuring a ‘rotifer altar’ and an amoeba ‘painting’. Gotta keep busy. #sciart #microscopy #womenartists

Will you be my synaptic partner? 🧠 💕
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Print these valentines at home this year for a unique/nerdy valentine!
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Looking forward to seeing more science-y valentines this year! 😄 @neurowoodworks.bsky.social @rqrd-qprn.bsky.social @laurabundesen.bsky.social

Thank you! These are spoken for but I make them on demand. They should be listed on www.neurowoodworks.com.

Thank you! They are all going to the same home. It will be a nice display on a wall.

Three brain cell sculptures about to travel the US of A. Medium spiny neuron, Purkinje cell and a microglial cell I really like. #sciart

I had tried to replicate this one because it looked so good!

Hello, this one is spoken for. I can make it again but I don’t think I would make it with the same wood. It killed my saw.

Purple Heart wood astrocyte. Naturally purple! #brain

I just finished an attempt at making a mitochondrion keychain. What do you think? #cellbio #carving

First brain cell of the year carved out of walnut wood. A microglial cell. It is 18in long and 8in wide.

This Astrocyte epoxy piece is available.

Small padauk wood mitochondria.