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Specialized frames all from the same era, acquired at completely different times. The Rockhopper Comp I bought for $30.00 at a police auction, mainly for the components. The 1989 Stumpjumper Team was my 3rd mountain bike ever, having purchased it used, probably in 1991, ridden to death, and only recently stripped down to possibly rebuild. The orange bike is Hardrock from a dumpster that I stripped and painted orange, and may soon be another commuter for me.
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Sergiu Pasca arrived at his Stanford lab on October 28, 2025, dressed like a scientist from another era. The navy suit, the precisely knotted tie, the substantial black frames all evoked that postwar period when researchers believed they could decode the fundamental mysteries of life itself. But the work happening in his laboratory at the Clark Center represents something thoroughly contemporary: growing human brain tissue in dishes to understand psychiatric disease.
The photograph captures him surrounded by the tools of his trade. Molecular models sit on the desk before him, physical representations of the chemical architecture underlying consciousness itself. Framed certificates hang shadowed on the wall behind. Everything arranged with precision, yet something in his expression suggests the restless intelligence that drives breakthrough science.
Pasca has accomplished what many thought impossible. His assembloids, organized clusters of human brain cells that recapitulate specific regions and their connections, have fundamentally altered how neuroscience approaches mental illness. These aren't merely collections of neurons floating in culture medium. They're structured tissues that develop recognizable features of cortex, striatum, thalamus. More remarkably, when fused together, they form connections that mimic how different brain regions communicate in living humans.
The implications ripple outward. For the first time, researchers can watch human brain development unfold in real time, introduce genetic variations linked to autism or schizophrenia, and observe the cellular consequences. No need for autopsy tissue or animal models that approximate but never fully capture human neurobiology. The actual substrate of human thought, grown from stem cells, available for study.
He came to this work through an unusual path. Born in Romania, trained in medicine before turning to research, Pasca brought a clinician's attention to human suffering alongside a scientist's appetite for mechanism. His early papers on Timothy syndrome, a rare genetic condition causing autism and heart defects, revealed how calcium channel mutations disrupted cortical development. But it was the assembloid work that established him as a pioneer.
By his late thirties, he was directing his own center, publishing in Science and Nature, being recognized with awards typically reserved for researchers decades older. The compression of achievement suggests not just talent but a particular kind of obsessive focus. He had found his problem: how brains build themselves and what goes wrong in psychiatric disease.
The assembloid studies have yielded concrete insights. In certain forms of autism, the difficulty lies not in individual neurons but in how brain regions communicate. His team fused cortical and striatal organoids and watched the connections form aberrantly in tissue carrying autism-associated mutations. Other work revealed how neural stem cells in schizophrenia patients show accelerated maturation, potentially explaining the timing of symptom onset.
This represents detective work at the cellular scale, tracking developmental divergences that manifest years later as a child who cannot speak or an adult who experiences psychosis. The molecular models on his desk aren't decorative but essential: they represent the chemical reality underlying every thought, every perception, every psychiatric symptom.
What makes Pasca's approach distinctive is its philosophical grounding in experimental rigor. By creating these miniature brain circuits, he's solved one of neuroscience's oldest problems: access to living human tissue during the critical period when circuits form. The assembloids provide a window into processes previously hidden, happening in utero or early childhood, long before symptoms appear.
The work has practical applications. Pharmaceutical companies use assembloids to test drug candidates on actual human brain tissue. Clinicians may eventually use patient-derived organoids to predict treatment response. But the deeper contribution is conceptual: a new way to think about brain development and its vulnerabilities.
That October afternoon, photographed in his laboratory, Pasca embodied a particular type of scientist. The formal attire speaks to seriousness of purpose. The molecular models and certificates frame achievement already substantial. But the eyes suggest someone still engaged with fundamental questions, still building toward insights not yet realized. He's made brains in dishes not as spectacle but as tool, a means toward helping people whose brains diverged from typical developmental trajectories.
His career will likely be defined by this work. The questions he's pursuing couldn't be more urgent: What causes autism? Why does schizophrenia emerge in early adulthood? Can we intervene earlier, more precisely? The answers are taking shape in his lab, one assembloid at a time, grown from stem cells into structures that think but cannot yet speak.
25th February 2007
The Frames at The Lowry, Manchester, UK
Set List
People Get Ready
The Cost
Seven Day Miles
Lay Me Down
God Bless Mom
What Happens When The Heart Just Stops
Angel at my Table
Falling Slowly
When Your Mind's Made up >>
Revelate
Friends And Foe
The Side You Never Get To See
Stars Are Underground
Fake
Your Face
Santa Maria
Fitzcarraldo
Encore
The Blue Shoes (violin solo)
Along the Mississipi Road (guitarist's song)
Sad Songs
Star Star into Hotellounge (dEUS cover)
Frames for photos made from cardboard from cereal boxes. (makeithappen.posterous.com/engaging-the-creative-habit-ce...)
I have no pictures of the boys on our walls, 50c frames from the opshop + black paint = super snazzy new frames.
The boys woke up from their naps about half way through and were very insistent about helping out.
A street scene was photographed in three sequential frames, then the motion of subjects was displayed in ten different ways:
2) stacked (background in registry)
4) stacked (cyclist in registry)
5) Harris shutter effect (background in registry)
6) Harris shutter effect (bus in registry)
7) Harris shutter effect (cyclist in registry)
8) Subtractive filter HSE (background in registry)
9) Subtractive filter HSE (bus in registry)
10) Subtractive filter HSE (cyclist in registry)
These are also compared sequentially in the first comment of the triptych photo.
I have no pictures of the boys on our walls, 50c frames from the opshop + black paint = super snazzy new frames.
The boys woke up from their naps about half way through and were very insistent about helping out.
I've marvelled at the ivy on this building many times. One day, I noticed how many frames are layered into this view - the patterned pavement, the hedges, the security fence, the windows and the old gas works reflected in them and of course, the ivy ...
I have no pictures of the boys on our walls, 50c frames from the opshop + black paint = super snazzy new frames.
The boys woke up from their naps about half way through and were very insistent about helping out.
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