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An A1 size poster template in PowerPoint that contains handy hints for designing your poster:
https://bit.ly/BISFC-poster

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Science Direct: How to make an academic poster [External]

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Academic posters are an excellent way to showcase your work at conferences and meetings. They can be used in poster presentations and serve as a summa...

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Each year members of the Babraham Institute can put forward images for the Imaging Prize, usually created using the Institute's Imaging Facility. Here are some winners and entrants from previous years, proving that spectacular images can come from science research.
https://www.babraham.ac.uk/discover-and-learn/prizes/image-prize

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Each year members of the Institute can put forward images for the Imaging Prize, usually created using the Institute's Imaging Facility.
The winner is selected by everyone in the Institute through a public vote.

2021 Winner

Laetitia Chauve’s image, with support by Simon Walker and Chieko Itakura from the Institute’s Imaging facility. This picture is a scanning electron micrograph of the head of an adult C. elegans worm magnified by 7,190 times. The raw image is greyscale but has been coloured by hand to highlight the six symmetrical inner lips (yellow/red) surrounding the opening of the mouth and the amphids (primary chemosensory organs; blue). Debris and/or bacteria (which C. elegans eat) have been coloured purple. Laetitia, a member of the Casaneuva lab, studies C. elegans to investigate the link between diet and ageing.

2020 winner

Katie Young's image depicts a mouse intestinal organoid stained for actin (red), nuclei (blue), smooth muscle actin (green) and beta catenin (white). The Sharpe lab uses organoids to study the role of phosphatases in the gut. The organoid on the right shows several crypts which have developed from the mouse intestinal stem cells.

2019 Winner

Célia Raimondi’s image of colourful C. elegans. The image shows DNA staining (DAPI) of a mutant strain of Caenorhabditis elegans. C.elegans, a tiny nematode worm, is one of the model systems used at the Institute and is used by the Casanueva group in the Epigenetics research programme to investigate the link between metabolism and ageing. The image has been modified for colour using the ImageJ image processing software.

2018 Winner

This year's winning image is by Laetitia Chauve and shows C. elegans worms labelled with a fluorescent protein and imaged using a confocal microscope. C. elegans is a really useful system for our research because we can monitor fluorescent reporters of gene expression in vivo and study inter-individual variability in stress response gene expression in isogenic individuals.

The Image was produced with the help of Simon Walker in the Institute's Imaging facility.

2017 Winner

This image shows the lining of the large intestine. DNA in the cell nuclei is shown in red. Histone-crotonylation, an epigenetic mark involved in gene activation, is shown in green. Yellow indicates colocalization of both stainings.
Juri Kazakevych

2016 Winner

This is a cross-section through a mouse’s colonic epithelium. It is folded into so-called crypts to form a large surface area for the absorption of water and nutrients, and is covered by a protective mucous layer. This layer is secreted by goblet cells which are shown in red.  These cells are crammed with mucins, proteins which make up the protective mucus and which were stained for using red fluorescent antibodies. (blue = DAPI staining nuclei, green = anti-EpCAM antibodies staining the cell membrane of epithelial cells)
Marisa Stebegg

2015 Winner

A cross section of left ventricle of an adult rat heart. Cardiac muscle fibre actinin is in red, identifying the muscle cells from fibroblasts. In addition, cardiac myocyte nuclei have a ring of green around their periphery. This is pericentriolar material-1 and is used to isolate myocyte nuclei from a total heart nuclear extraction. All nuclei are stained in blue.
Emma Robinson

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Each year members of the Institute can put forward images for the Imaging Prize, usually created using the Institute's Imaging Facility. The winner is selected by everyone in the Institute through a public vote.

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AEON: Trajectories of longevity and CRISPR

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Would you take daily inhalations to stay young? In her work “ÆON. Trajectories of Longevity and CRISPR,” the artist Emilia Tikka constructs a poetic scenario of a possible future. This work was funded through the ORION Open Science project, of which the Babraham Institute was a Partner Institution.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kqXBSJf4PQ
News article: https://www.orion-openscience.eu/news/201901/would-you-live-forever
Artist website: https://www.emiliatikka.com/new-page-1

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Would you want to live forever? ÆON – Trajectories of Longevity and #CRISPR

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In this project, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) work with school art departments to create artworks inspired by the molecules of life.
Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pdb-art
2021 Exhibition: https://www.artsteps.com/view/61253314806836515cbf064a

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Artsteps provides you with a platform to create, design & share your own VR exhibitions and stories

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Artsteps provides you with a platform to create, design & share your own VR exhibitions and stories

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The Babraham Institute in three minutes (and a bit)

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How does our immune system respond to vaccines? Does it change when we age?

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PI3K signalling: from basic biology to new cancer therapies

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How is our DNA organised within a cell but still remains functional?

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Science Museum: Art and Science [External]

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Art has always been part of the Science Museum. From the museum’s origins in the Great Exhibition of 1851, to our founding collections that moved from the Patent Museum in 1909, we have always had art and science in dialogue.

Today, the museum’s art collections comprise over 15,000 objects, ranging from the 1500s to now, including paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture, kinetic and digital works.

The arts feature in our permanent galleries, exhibitions, research and events programmes, and we regularly commission new works from contemporary artists.  We think that art can help people to look at science differently and that science asks different questions of the arts.

Here we bring together stories about art and science from our exhibitions and galleries, highlights from the collection, discussion of past projects, and blogs that delve into some key moments when the arts and sciences have shaped each other, both in the world, and in our collections.

The Art of Innovation

Catch the thoughtful and engaging series The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter on BBC Radio 4, presented by Sir Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science Museum Group, and Dr Tilly Blyth, Head of Collections & Principal Curator at the Science Museum,

The series first ran in 2019, when BBC Radio 4 and the Science Museum Group embarked on an exciting  partnership exploring the relationship between art and science over the past 250 years.  As well as the 20-part  radio series, the Museum hosted an exhibition that expanded on the themes addressed in the series, and published an accompanying book with further stories appearing online.

The Art of Innovation: Stories

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The series first ran in 2019, when BBC Radio 4 and the Science Museum Group embarked on an exciting partnership exploring the relationship between art and science over the past 250 years. As well as the 20-part radio series, the Museum hosted an exhibition that expanded on the themes addressed in the series, and published an accompanying book with further stories appearing online.

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Art and science are often thought to fall on opposite sides of the left-right brain divide, but history has proven time and again that many of the brightest minds are polymaths.

Leonardo da Vinci, the greatest of all the artist-scientists , once wrote, "To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." His suggestion is being taken even today, with many medical schools requiring soon-to-be doctors to take art and art history classes, while contemporary artists including Trevor Paglen, Anicka Yi, and Neri Oxman find influences in astronomy, biology, and geology.

From adventuring woman botanists to the drawing-enthused father of modern neuroscience, learn more about art history's great scientific minds below.

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)

Scientific Contributions: A 17th-century naturalist and botanist, Merian was one of the first European scientists to directly observe insects. When she started her research, insects were still commonly referred to as "beasts of the devil" and were thought to spontaneously generate from mud. Her most influential studies detailed the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies-a phenomenon that was largely undocumented before her investigations. She penned a two-volume book on caterpillars, with each accompanied by 50 plates of engravings, and is today considered one of the pioneers of the field of entomology.

Artistic Pursuits: Before her scientific investigations, Merian first earned acclaim as a botanical artist, publishing a three-volume series, each of 12 illustrated plates of flowers, in 1675. As was common at the time, these decorative illustrations, which were not drawn from direct observation, were intended to be used by upper-class ladies as designs for embroidery, drawings, and paintings. Merian's interests extended far beyond the parlor, however; a n adventurer to the umpteenth degree, she traveled to Dutch Surinam on a self-funded journey in 1699 (raising many eyebrows) and documented a wealth of flora, creating some of the first color illustrations of the New World.

Samuel Morse (1791-1872)

Scientific Endeavors: As a student at Yale, Samuel Morse studied philosophy and math, but dreamed of a career as an artist of great history paintings. After that dream cooled, he went on to pursue his interest in the burgeoning field of electromagnetics-and for the future of telecommunications, his shift in studies was a godsend. Morse would go on to develop both the telegraph and the Morse code, absolutely dazzling the world when, on May 24, 1844, he sent the biblical line, "What hath God wrought?" from the US Capitol in Washington, DC, to Baltimore, with his new invention.

Artistic Pursuits: Though his career in the arts was overshadowed by his stunning accomplishments in the field of communications, Morse made a serious go at art, studying under the painter Washington Allston, and then with Benjamin West at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Large-scale Neoclassical paintings of myth and history scenes were his passion, and the most famous of his works is the monumental Gallery of the measuring an impressive six by nine feet. Returning to the United States, he found the American public unreceptive to his style, which he blamed on a culture of prevailing bad taste.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-1972)

Scientific Endeavors: Ralph Eugene Meatyard extended both of his careers, as a photographer and an optician, from a scientific and philosophical fascination with light and vision. Born in Normal, Illinois, Meatyard served in the military before becoming a licensed optician in 1949. A position with an optical firm would bring him to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1950. This firm also owned a photography company, which introduced the doctor to the medium. Profoundly influenced by Zen Buddhism (and a pen pal of the Trappist monk Thomas Merton), Meatyard would spend some three months looking through an u nfocused camera to attain what he called a state of "No-Focus," in which the appearance of an object was detached from its meaning.

Artistic Pursuits: Meatyard began taking photographs in the 1950s and would pursue the practice until his early death in 1972. His photographs were unusual for the time, and often included blurred figures, and, later, portraits of his children and himself wearing odd, monster-like masks. Meatyard earned little critical acclaim in his lifetime, though his works was presented alongside those of Ansel Adams, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan in "Creative Photography," an exhibition curated by Van Deren Coke for the University of Kentucky. His peculiar style often left him relegated to a regional style of Southern Gothic, though his posthumously published photo-book, he Family Album of Lucybelle Crater (named after the main character in Flannery O'Connor's short story, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"), earned him increasing institutional attention.

Anna Atkins (1799-1871)

Scientific Endeavors: This English botanist Anna Atkins was fascinated by the delicate and diverse varieties of algae to be found in the waterways of Great Britain. In 1843, Atkins published the first half of her scientific reference book, British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions , using light-sensitive materials to capture her specimens, thereby establishing photography as a scientific tool.

Artistic Pursuits: Atkins is regarded as the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographs and is considered by some to be the first woman to create a photograph to begin with. Moreover, she learned about the photographic process directly from her frequent correspondent Henry Fox Talbot, the man who i nvented the salted paper and calotype processes, the precursors to modern film photography.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Scientific Endeavors: A true Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci was fascinated by anatomy, botany, astronomy, and geology, among an unending litany of other fields. Today he is best remembered for his artistic accomplishments, but his contributions to science were revolutionary and wide-reaching. He posited that the earth was not the center of the sun's orbit and dissected bodies to learn the inner workings of organs and human bone structure. His notebooks are filled with inventions that could not be realized in his lifetime, including the parachute, helicopter, and even the calculator.

Artistic Pursuits: Da Vinci believed that art, science, and nature were inextricably linked and could not be fully be appreciated except in synthesis-and his contemporaries and later followers seemed to agree. His paintings the and The Last Supper still draw unbelievable crowds, and his sketch of the Vitruvian Man, another cultural touchstone, is perhaps the best representation of his belief that scientific study could reveal harmony and proportion in the universe.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934)

Scientific Contributions: The Spanish-born Cajal has been called the father of modern neuroscience, and in 1906 won the Nobel Prize for his revolutionary research into the nervous system. He was the first person to suggest that the brain is composed of individual cell structures, and his contributions to the understanding of how the brain actually works are still studied today.

Artistic Pursuits: Cajal aspired to be an artist before his father encouraged him to pursue medicine, but his initial passion never waned. During his career, he made thousands of detailed drawings of brain matter based on what he saw through microscopes, and today these drawings remain valued sources for neurological study. His images range in style from Vienna Secession-inspired tree-like branches of the nervous system to inky, amorphic images of neurons.

John James Audubon (1785-1851)

Scientific Endeavors: Ornithologists around the world revere his name to this day. John James Audubon was born in Haiti and raised in France, then immigrated to Pennsylvania at the age of 18. His love of birds translated into an impassioned and scientific pursuit, as he studied their migratory habits and depicted them realistically in their habitats. He traveled the US endeavoring to depict all the birds in the county and was America's leading wildlife artist for half a century. The Audubon Society is named after him and is inspired by his mission.

Artistic Pursuits: Audubon's depictions of birds were far from purely scientific. He depicted his creatures with delicacy, color, and often bits of flora for their habitats. His Birds of America , a collection of 435 life-size prints, remains the standard for wildlife artistry. An early copy of the mammoth book sold for $11.5 million at Sotheby's in 2010.

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Art and science are often thought to fall on opposite sides of the left-right brain divide, but history has proven time and again that many of the brightest minds are polymaths. Leonardo da Vinci, the greatest of all the artist-scientists , once wrote, "To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science.