‘Science and Art – Bridging Two Creative Universes’ at the Cell Bio meeting
Words cannot describe the sheer amount of creativity highlighted in our session on ‘Science and…
A Serious Play Award for Microscopya!
We’re beyond excited to announce that Microscopya has won yet another award! The Serious Play…
Art & Science at the San Diego Comic-Con!
I’m so excited that I got to present at Comic-Con International! I got to share…
Science Fashion show at the Barrio Logan Science & Art Expo
I’m thrilled to share about our Young Women In Bio Science Fashion show at the…
Art & Science Intertwined at the Escondido Arts Partnership Municipal Gallery
What a pleasure to join the opening reception for the Art & Science Intertwined show…
A Poster Design for the Salk Cell Cycle Meeting
I’m beyond excited to share my brand new drawing about one of my favorite aspects…
My science art is in the Oceanside Museum of Art!
What a wonderful dream come true! Check out my exhibition at the wonderful Oceanside Museum…
A Collaborative Cover on Data Visualization
I can’t express how excited I am about my collaboration with the David Goodsell for…
A Space Mission Patch for the Molecular Muscle Experiment 2
I’m so excited to present my latest space mission patch! This drawing illustrates the second…
Presenting my latest project – a video game called Microscopya
I’m thrilled to finally share my very first sketches for Microscopya – my science video…
A Space Mission Patch for the Fluorescent Deep Space Petri-Pod
I’m thrilled to present my new space mission patch that combines two of my favorite…
Cells Within Cells
My new drawing illustrates bacteria inside cancer and immune cells! Our bodies are made up…
DNA Factory for a Division of Labor During DNA Replication
Each time our cells divide, they need to replicate their DNA to pass on their…
New EMBO Journal Cover – dancing towards pluripotency
This artwork illustrates how two processes cooperate to create stem cells – represented by the dancer’s…
Artwork for VIZBI – a conference on Visualizing Biological Data
Presenting my new artwork for the 11th international meeting on Visualizing Biological Data at the…
New publication – communicating scientific concepts through art
I’m so excited to share my newest publication – this time not a research paper,…
Handcuffs for CRISPR – my new drawing for a Molecular Cell paper!
You may not see it, but an evolutionary battle is being waged all around us…
My drawing in a TEDx talk!
My drawing is in a TEDx talk! The topic is inheritance of memories in C….
N=1 Podcast: Science meets art — on a dress
Check out the new UC San Diego Health N=1 Podcast episode where I talk about my…
Very excited to be an AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador for Women in STEM!
I’m so honored to be chosen as an AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador – a program to…
My Nature Genetics cover illustrating a rearranged genetic landscape!
A new paper in Nature Genetics challenges the current model of how the genome’s 3D…
An RNA Snapshot of the Past and Present
When our cells respond to stimuli or differentiate, they change their gene expression dramatically and…
A Worm Family Tree Made of Neurons
This drawing illustrates how changes in the nervous system of C. elegans worms can affect behavior…
EMBO Reports cover – stabilizing mRNA strands for memory formation!
Presenting my new EMBO Reports cover – stabilizing mRNA strands for memory formation! Learning and…
A Pac-Man Toxin in Tuberculosis!
Tuberculosis is a serious infectious disease and one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The…
Cell Division in a Worm Embryo
This logo depicts the main research topics in the labs of Karen Oegema and Arshad…
Cover for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Crocheting the mitoribosome – a combination of a hand-drawn illustration with a real structure of…
EMBO Reports Cover
My new cover for EMBO Reports – illustrating how editing of RNAs prevents autoimmunity! Our…
A Space Mission Patch for the Molecular Muscle Experiment 1
The Molecular Muscle Experiment will be sending worms into space to study the negative effects…
A Scientific Star Map
It’s a wonderful honor to present my new drawing for this year’s ASCB|EMBO meeting! Take the…
Growing Brain Cancer in Petri Dishes
Brain tumors are aggressive and deadly cancers, yet it has been difficult to study them…
An Epigenetic Jungle
A gibbon is swinging across a river within an epigenetic landscape, which regulates compaction and…
Finding a Mutation in a Haystack
When a mutation within human populations is under positive selection, neighboring DNA sequences hitchhike along…
A Surfing Virus
Pathogens like the Vaccinia virus exploit the actin cytoskeleton to move around on the surface…
A Dress Representing the Beauty of the Molecular World!
The prints on the skirt are created from real microscopy images of human cells. The…
Cellular River for Flow Cytometry
This drawings illustrates flow cytometry – a powerful method that uses a stream of fluid…
Mito-Train
The circular DNA of human mitochondria must be both replicated and transcribed. For transcription, the…
Moonshining Transcription
My new artwork for a fantastic Nature paper that shows a new mechanism for gene-expression!…
A Knitted Network of DNA
During division, cells disassemble their nucleus and release many independent chromosomes – but how are…
A Dynamic ESCRT for Splitting Membranes
I’m so excited to share a drawing I made for my own paper recently published…
A Perfect Tomato Plant
My new artwork for a recent Cell paper that used CRISPR to increase yield in…
Nature Methods Cover – An Arrow Poison for CRISPR
My new artwork on the current Nature Methods cover – what a great honor! Congratulations…
EMBO Journal Cover – Self Organization in Cerebral Organoids
So excited have my drawing on the current issue of EMBO Journal! This artwork illustrates…
An Eye-catcher for the CSHL Symposium
I had the huge honor to illustrate the poster for the 82nd Cold Spring Harbor…
The Beauty of Mitotic Structures
Cellular components are precisely organized down to their very molecules, enabling the cell to perform…
An ‘ESCRT’ Dress to Address My Research
I made this dress to explain my research on cytokinetic abscission – the final step…
Molecular Structures
The eukaryotic cell contains a large diversity of intricate structures and organelles that can be…
Worm Secrets
I made this drawing to illustrate Sriram Sundaramoorthy’s research, who presented the illustration at the ASCB Meeting…
Genes to Genomes Feature!
My scientific illustrations were featured on Genes to Genomes, a blog from the Genetics Society of…
The Stories Behind My Drawings
You can read about the stories behind my scientific illustrations on The Node. I am…
A Melody Played by Two Hands
A class of small regulatory RNAs, termed piRNAs, protect the genome from invading DNA sequences….
EMBO Journal Cover – A Molecular Compass for Cell Division
I made this drawing for the cover of the EMBO Journal to accompany our new…
An Unconventional Take on Scientific Presentations
I began making scientific illustrations when I realized that showing a drawing as part of…
Mitotic Spindle
Before DNA is segregated during cell division, chromosomes are held near the center of the…
Failed Experiment
Oh no! An unsuccessful experiment can bring up very intense emotions, which every scientist is…
Basic Research ‘apps’
As part of the organizing committee, I had the wonderful opportunity to design an illustration…
Soapy Chromosome
Before chromosomes can be segregated during cell division, they have to cover themselves with a…
The Five-Second Rule
What happens when you drop food on the floor? According to the myth of the…
PhD Emotions – A Series of Portraits
When devotion begets emotion – the life of a PhD student. This portrait series of…
The Final Cut
In the final step of cell division, the bridge connecting the cells is cut in…