Home Illustration Jewelry Fine Art/Prints Blog Contact Visualizing Biological Data — VizbiPlus Challenge in Sydney Submitted by bethcroce on Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:25 Last week I got the exciting news that my entry in the VizbiPlus Challenge in Sydney, Australia, was once again a finalist. Last year my sterling silver interpretation of DNA and the P53 protein (currently studied potential key to understanding several types of cancer, it detects and corrects genetic mistakes) brought me to the event. While the 'Guardian Necklace' wasn't the over all winner, it was fantastic to be part of VizbiPlus, which featured a talk and a workshop by one of the founding fathers of molecular bology visualization, David Goodsell. In a small world twist, David's work graced the first book project I worked on back in 1994. How wonderful to finally meet this artist/scientist in person. (note: my work and that of the other 2014 finalists can be seen here http://vizbi.org/plus/challenge) This year I created a digital collage depicting the progression of steps toward the development of amyloid plaques that lead to the degeneration of brain tissue in Alzheimer's disease. Again, not the final winner, but very special to get to be there for Gaël McGill's (director of Molecular Visualization at Harvard Medical School and front man at Digizym) and the always stellar molecular animator/scientist Drew Barry's (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) inspiring talks. Surgical illustration will always be my first love. But I wonder if the complex yet accessible imagery like Drew's and Gaël's had been around when I was a student, would I been seduced by the world at the molecular level? I'm certainly intrigued now.... I'll leave this with 'Midnight in the Garden of My Mind', my 2015 VizbiPlus Challenge entry. And the suggestion that you check out the free Life on Earth iBooks that beautifully and interactively convey biological science in a way you've never seen before. Inspirational. -bc Visualizing Biological Data — VizbiPlus Challenge in Sydney Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 13:27 Last week I got the exciting news that my entry in the VizbiPlus Challenge in Sydney, Australia, was once again a finalist. Last year my sterling... Click Here to Read More... Wedding Bells Saturday, February 1, 2014 - 16:18 No, not for me (my own marriage—a uniquely surprise event—took place years ago), but for a growing number of men who have been getting married with... Click Here to Read More... Porcelain and printmaking, match made in Heaven Monday, June 17, 2013 - 11:13 2013 started off with a bang here at the Bioperspective Studios. February saw the launch of the How to Mend a Broken Heart solo exhibition, which was... Click Here to Read More... A Heartfelt Thanks Friday, January 25, 2013 - 12:42 Oops, I said I wasn't going to make any more heart puns but I couldn't even get past the title of this blog entry. Try again. A huge thanks to all... Click Here to Read More... How to Mend a Broken Heart Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 12:59 2013 is shaping up to be an interesting year in the Bioperspective studios. The bimonthly international multimedia Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery... Click Here to Read More... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next › last » All content copyright Bioperspective 2010 | web design by umney media | site login