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Art of Science: 2021 Winner

Membrane and nucleus stain of two-year-old wild-type mouse quadricep.

About the Participant(s)

Full Name: Lana Jagannathan
Title: PhD Candidate, Integrated Biomedical Sciences Program
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Art of Science: 2021 Winner

A tiled 10x immunofluorescence image of murine skin, resembling a landscape. Stained for DAPI (nuclei) in blue, Perilipin1 (adipocytes) in red, and GFP in green, and embellished with a night sky.

About the Participant(s)

Full Name: Paula Cooper, PhD
Title: Postdoctoral Scientist
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Art of Science: 2021 Winner

3D reconstruction of astrocyte morphology insubfornical organ of a mouse brain that underwent optical tissue clearing.

About the Participant(s)

Full Name: Hovhannes Arestakesyan, PhD
Title: Postdoctoral Scientist
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Art of Science: 2023 Winner

A radial distribution across chromosomes of key transcripts in Alzheimer's Disease is shown. The overall figure highlights the complex network of expression and regulation of genomic elements that are associated with the progression of Alzheimer's Disease. In the central ring, links are drawn between genomic loci of endogenous retroviruses that have correlated expression and the length and expression levels of these elements are shown in the second and third rings, respectively.

About the Participant(s)

Full Name: Tyson Scott Dawson
Title: PhD Alum, Integrated Biomedical Sciences Program
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Art of Science: 2024 Winner

Distal tips of the anterior prostate lobe of a mouse at postnatal day 14 expressing transgenic Csf1r-EGFP (macrophages) in green. Tissue was immunolabeled wholemount for TUBB3 (neurons) in red and stained for DAPI (nuclei) in blue. A maximum intensity projection is shown of the 3D airyscan image.

About the Participant(s)

Full Name: Sally Feng
Title: PhD Candidate, Integrated Biomedical Sciences (IBS) Program
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Art of Science: 2025 Grand Prize Winner

3T3-L1 fibroblasts that have been differentiated into adipocytes over a 14-day period with serum starvation and a cocktail of insulin, dexamethasone, and IBMX. The newly formed adipocytes have been stained with Oil Red O for analysis of lipid droplet formation within the adipocyte, and rate of differentiation.

About the Participant(s)

Full Name: Sarah Kleb
Title: PhD Candidate, Integrated Biomedical Sciences (IBS) Program
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Full Name: Brett Shook, PhD (Advisor)
Title: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Art of Science: 2025 Winner

A 20X immunohistochemistry of murine small intestine embedded in paraffin, which highlights cell nuclei stained with DAPI (cyan), the silhouette of enterocytes, goblet cells, and other cells of epithelial origin stained with E-Cadherin (magenta) and the cytoskeletal protein villin which reveals the intestinal brush border (white). The staining is meant to optimize a murine pseudotyped HIV model to study and target mechanisms of viral reservoir establishment.

About the Participant(s)

Full Name: Marta Sanz, PhD
Title: Postdoctoral Alum
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Full Name: Carles Moreno Soriano
Title: Lab Technician; Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine Department
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Full Name: Sanjay Maggirwar, PhD (Advisor)
Title: Professor and Chair of Microbiology Immunology, and Tropical Medicine
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Art of Science: 2025 Winner

“Sea Creatures.” Dimensionality-reduced visualizations of six single-cell long-read RNA-seq cancer samples generated using scSNViz.

About the Participant(s)

Full Name: Vania Ballesteros Prieto
Title: MS Candidate, Bioinformatics & Molecular Biology
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Full Name: Anelia Horvath, PhD (Advisor)
Title: Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Gallery of Fluid Motion

The Gallery of Fluid Motion is intended to be a visual record of the aesthetic and science of contemporary fluid mechanics like liquids and gases, to be shared both with fellow researchers and the general public.

About the Participant(s)

Full Name: Azar Panah
Title: Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
School: School of Engineering & Applied Science