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Natural Beauty
By Emily Donnelly, Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, ’21 View of Yosemite’s famous Half Dome from Glacier Point This spectacular image was taken from the ledge of Glacier Point trail in Yosemite National Park, overlooking the iconic 8,844 foot tall half-dome granite rock, which is such a historical and symbolic part of this natural landscape. The […]
Ode to Complementation
By Angelica Degnan, Genetics ’15 Oh complementation testing whatever do you do? How does thee help me explain the mutants true? Begin with two recessive strains Cross, observe, unearth the ones that are the same What does this mean? How do you explain the ones that function redundantly through? Complementation, complementation alas I see the […]
Photography: DNA
By Riley Galton, Genetics ’14 Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, encodes all of the instructions necessary for the beautiful figures and forms that can be found in the biological world. All plants, animals, and humans— subjects that are so familiar to the photographer—share the same underlying, four-letter genetic code. It is this simple molecular code that […]
Population Vector
By Jennifer Jahncke, Psychology ’14 Something we talk about a lot in neuroscience in terms of topics like visual perception and locomotion is population vectors. A population vector is the sum of each component vector. In this image, with the trees converging to a vanishing point, the population vector would be the vector in the center […]
“The Eukaryotic Ribosome”
This is a submission from UC Davis CBS Professor Sean Burgess. It comes from a future publication that relates the human quest to visualize the inner workings of the cell, molecular biology, with the quest to visualize the interior of the mind, art. Title: The Eukaryotic Ribosome Caption: The basic mechanism of ribosome based-protein synthesis is conserved […]
“Drosophila Are Cute”
Work by Don Hoang, 4th year Microbiology major at UCD. Pieces were featured on a scientific poster on Drosophila/Yeast interactions in 2014.
Vulgar Spagyrists
Vulgar Spagyrists 20″ x 16″ Oil Painting Breanne Sparta BMCDB 1st year graduate student
Basal Ganglia
Basal Ganglia 14″ x 18″ Oil Painting Breanne Sparta BMCDB 1st year graduate student