I’m beyond excited to share my brand new drawing about one of my favorite aspects of cell biology – a ‘cell cycle’ clock!
Inspired by the …
What a wonderful dream come true! Check out my exhibition at the wonderful Oceanside Museum of Art, showcasing my science drawings, fashion and jewelry.
If you’re …
I can’t express how excited I am about my collaboration with the David Goodsell for the cover of The Biochemist to complement our recent article …
I’m so excited to present my latest space mission patch!
This drawing illustrates the second Molecular Muscle Experiment, which sends C. elegans worms into space for …
I’m thrilled to finally share my very first sketches for Microscopya – my science video game exploring the fantastical world inside the cell!
Microscopya will …
I’m thrilled to present my new space mission patch that combines two of my favorite things: microscopy and space!
The Fluorescent Deep Space Petri-Pod enables space …
My new drawing illustrates bacteria inside cancer and immune cells!
Our bodies are made up of more than just our cells. They are also home to …
Each time our cells divide, they need to replicate their DNA to pass on their genetic material to the two daughter cells. To create identical …
This artwork illustrates how two processes cooperate to create stem cells – represented by the dancer’s choreography on her way to pluripotency.
Stem cells have been crucial …
Presenting my new artwork for the 11th international meeting on Visualizing Biological Data at the USC Bridge Institute – a VIZBI 2020 ‘Hollywood’ sign illuminated …
I’m so excited to share my newest publication – this time not a research paper, but an article on ‘Communicating scientific concepts through art” in …
You may not see it, but an evolutionary battle is being waged all around us between bacteria and the viruses that target them. This drawing …
My drawing is in a TEDx talk!
The topic is inheritance of memories in C. elegans, which I illustrated as a worm family tree made …
Check out the new UC San Diego Health N=1 Podcast episode where I talk about my research, science art and my AAAS IF/THEN outreach for women …
I’m so honored to be chosen as an AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador – a program to inspire girls to be the next generation of STEM …
A new paper
in Nature
Genetics challenges the current model of how the genome’s 3D organisation
controls gene expression. Using Drosophila fruit flies that carry rearranged
chromosomes, researchers found …
When our cells respond to stimuli or differentiate, they change their gene
expression dramatically and modify RNA transcription to regulate their genes.
One way to monitor gene …
This drawing illustrates how changes in the nervous system of C. elegans worms can affect behavior in future generations through small RNAs that regulate expression of …
Presenting my new EMBO
Reports cover – stabilizing mRNA strands for memory formation!
Learning and forming memories are fundamental processes essential for survival, requiring precise regulation …
Tuberculosis is a serious infectious disease and one of
the leading causes of death worldwide. The disease-causing bacteria, called
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, are depicted in the drawing in red. …
This logo depicts the main research topics in the labs of Karen Oegema and Arshad Desai at the University of California San Diego focusing on …
Crocheting the mitoribosome – a combination of a hand-drawn illustration with a real structure of the human mitochondrial ribosome.
Ribosomes are giant machineries composed of …
My new cover
for EMBO Reports – illustrating how editing of RNAs prevents autoimmunity!
Our immune system is extremely efficient in protecting us from foreign pathogens, …
The Molecular Muscle Experiment will be sending worms into
space to study the negative effects of spaceflight on the body, and to help
discover therapies to enable …
It’s a wonderful honor to present my new drawing for
this year’s ASCB|EMBO
meeting!
Take the ASCB Model Organism quiz to find out what model organism
you are!
The intricate …
Brain tumors are aggressive and deadly cancers, yet it has been difficult to study them in the laboratory. A new Nature Methods paper reports a …
A gibbon is swinging across a river within an epigenetic
landscape, which regulates compaction and expression of our DNA. The arid
desert illustrates loosely packed DNA containing …
When a mutation within human populations is under positive selection, neighboring DNA sequences hitchhike along with it in a process called selective sweep. These neighboring …
Pathogens like the Vaccinia virus exploit the actin cytoskeleton to move around on the surface of cells – this ‘surfing’ accelerates virus spreading between cells.
This …
The prints on the skirt are created from real microscopy images of human cells. The blue layers show a collage of dividing cells, with green …
This drawings illustrates flow cytometry – a powerful method that uses a stream of fluid to pass cells through a detector for sorting or analysis.
Cellular …
The circular DNA of human mitochondria must be both replicated and transcribed. For transcription, the RNA polymerase ‘train’ requires a protein called TEFM. This drawings …
My new artwork for a fantastic Nature paper that shows a new mechanism for gene-expression!
Many genome-defense pathways are based on small RNA molecules that turn …
During division, cells disassemble their nucleus and release
many independent chromosomes – but how are all those chromosomes enclosed in a
single nucleus after mitosis?
The protein …
I’m so excited to share a drawing I made for my own paper
recently published in Nature Cell
Biology!
This artwork illustrates the dynamics of a protein …
My new artwork for a recent Cell paper that used CRISPR to increase yield in tomato plants!
Today’s tomatoes are the result of thousands of years …
My new artwork on the current Nature
Methods cover – what a great honor!
Congratulations to the Doyon lab for a fantastic paper!
Ouabain, a molecule traditionally …
So excited have my drawing on
the current issue
of EMBO Journal!
This artwork illustrates how ‘minibrains’ self-organize their cells into
distinct zones – like a yin-yang symbolizing the …
I had the huge honor to illustrate the poster for the 82nd Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium on Chromosome Segregation and Structure.
I can’t express …
Cellular components are precisely organized down to their very molecules, enabling the cell to perform fascinating processes like cell division. This artwork is a fusion …
I made this dress to explain my research on cytokinetic
abscission – the final step of cell division:
When animal cells need to split their connection, they
put …
The eukaryotic cell contains a large diversity of intricate structures and organelles that can be captured by electron microscopy. While this method enables scientists to …
I made this drawing to illustrate Sriram Sundaramoorthy’s
research, who presented the illustration at the ASCB Meeting 2016 in
San Francisco.
Sriram explains the story behind the drawing:
“My research involves studying …
My scientific illustrations were featured on Genes to Genomes,
a blog from the Genetics Society of America.
Their GSA-Art
series creates a wonderful space for sharing the creative works of
scientists, …
You can read about the stories behind my scientific
illustrations on The Node. I am so excited for my artwork to be featured in a
scientific blog!
“I …
A class of small regulatory RNAs, termed piRNAs, protect the genome from invading DNA sequences. These piRNAs are generated by two pathways that act in …
I made this drawing for the cover of the
EMBO Journal to accompany our new paper on
mammalian brain development.
The paper shows that a microRNA family …
I began making scientific illustrations when I realized that
showing a drawing as part of my scientific presentations sparked interest and
tended to stay in people’s memories.
…
Before DNA is segregated during cell division, chromosomes
are held near the center of the cell by the mitotic spindle, which connects to
the chromosomes by a …
Oh no!
An unsuccessful experiment can bring up very intense emotions, which every scientist is certainly familiar with!
An unsuccessful experiment can bring up very intense emotions, …
As part of the organizing committee, I had the wonderful
opportunity to design an illustration for the upcoming VBC PhD Symposium
in Vienna titled ‘Mind the App’.
I …
Before chromosomes can be segregated during cell division, they have to cover themselves with a protein that acts similar to soap to prevent them from …
What happens when you drop food on the floor?
According to the myth of the “five-second rule”,
bacteria will wait patiently so you have time to …
When devotion begets emotion – the life of a PhD student. This portrait series of my fellow researchers illustrates the intense emotions scientists face in …
In the final step of cell division, the bridge connecting the cells is cut in a process called cytokinetic abscission, giving rise to two separate …