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Megan Riel-Mehan featured in USCF Science in Focus article
Megan's work with Lillian Fritz-Laylin, Dyche Mullins, and Tom Goddard is briefly described in a UCSF Science in Focus article In a quote from the article, Megan says: “This project exemplifies the wonderful interplay that can exist between experimental science and visualization science. It makes the case that visualization should be part of the research process, not just something you do at the very end for an article cover.” |
HHMI illustration brought back to life
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Best Blender Animation Ever (uses ePMV too!)
Chris Hammang, a Biomedical Animator at Garvan Institute of Medical Research and CSIRO has created many stunning animations while simultaneously taming the savage beast I know as the open-source 3D animation software package Blender. Please check out this captivating animation (gorgeous, regardless of the software used, but arguably the best Blender animation I've ever seen) that uses ePMV to generate molecular representations, and check out his other movies from his website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Rtxxbw7Yg |
Immune Defense kickstarter 16 days
 I've worked on many prototypes and have provided consultation on many iterations of Immune Attack and Immune Defense over the years. The project inventor and leader Melanie Stegman is extremely enthusiastic about teaching complex topics like immunology in a more intuitive manner to a variety of audiences through gaming. She now has several years of game design and development experience under her belt, but such projects are difficult to fund through traditional government grants. If you believe that games can aid in student centered learning, please checkout her Kickstarter funding page.Melanie writes:
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 A cellPACK model of bacterium Mycoplasma mycoides
Behold a computer-generated model of the tiny bacterium Mycoplasma mycoides. The long orange strand is its circular DNA genome, a million basepairs encoding about 1000 genes. This bacterium lacks a cell wall but is covered with lipoglycans, shown here as green filaments. In red, yellow, blue, and purple are various proteins, represented by the structures of homologous proteins from other organisms. Together, these depict the molecular crowding in cells.
This model was made with the cellPACK* software (cellPACK.org) described in cellPACK: A virtual mesoscope to model and visualize structural systems biology, Johnson et al., Nat Methods (2014). cellPACK models can be viewed interactively with the program UCSF Chimera (rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera) from the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics**.
Funding:
* NSF Predoctoral Fellowship (07576), NIH P41GM103426 & P50GM103368, Autodesk, & Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation.
** NIH/NIGMS Biomedical Technology Research Center (P41GM103311).
M. mycoides in Snow by RBVI associates Graham T. Johnson & Thao P. Do of mesoscope.org and thaopdo.com, ©2014 |
Behold HIV-1_0.1.6
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Johnson wins 2nd place Biophysical Society Annual Meeting 2014 Image Contest
 Dynein motor proteins moving along microtubules– This ePMV model of Dynein by Graham Johnson is rendered in Cinema 4D and based on a crystal structure reported by Carter, Cho, Jin and Vale (Science- March 4, 2011). Details at www.biophysics.org/Awards... |
Ritisha Laungani receives Allan Kuchinsky Student Award
sigViz Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Student Ritisha Laungani received the Allan Kuchinsky Student Award today for her work on fluxViz over the summer of 2013.  Allan Kuchinsky  Ritisha Laungani |
VIVID Sydney presentation posted
Here is a talk I gave to describe the work that I and other medical/molecular illustrators do to a general audience attending Sydney's winter light and music festival VIVID. https://vimeo.com/72709485 |
Lecture at Faraday Discussion 169 in May, 2014
 visit http://rsc.li/fd169 for details. |
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