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Science Illustration

Illustrations for research papers, theses, grants and reviews. Some are commissioned; others come from my own research.

Publications Posters Data visualisation #SciType →Women in Science Elemental →Watercolour

Illustrations for publications

Before design, I was a biologist. These schematics were drawn for papers, theses, grants and reviews: cell biology made legible without losing its accuracy. Concerted Creation grew out of my own research at TIFR, published in PLoS Genetics, and was shown at the International Society for Computational Biology Art Show in Chicago in 2018.

Schematic of a cell showing where different lipids sit — Lipid localisation within a cell

Schematic of cargo sorting from the Golgi to dendrites and axons — Transport from the Golgi complex

Diagram of molecular gradients in tumour tissue — Molecular gradients in tumour metastasis

Concerted Creation: a green cell manipulated by robotic arms — Concerted Creation · from my TIFR research (PLoS Genetics, 2017) · ISCB Art Show, Chicago, 2018

Posters for conferences, talks and schools

Posters for scientific meetings, lectures and school outreach, where a single image has to draw a crowd and explain the science.

Poster on bacterial growth laws — Bacterial growth laws · talk poster

Poster for a C. elegans meeting — 1st Indian C. elegans Meeting · 40th Mahabaleshwar Seminar

Physical Biology of the Cell poster — Physical Biology of the Cell · course poster

Comic cover: The Adventures of Wormlock Holmes — The Adventures of Wormlock Holmes

Data visualisation

Two data visualisations, for print and the web. The Story of the Finches uses creative coding tools like Processing and D3.js to tell the story of Darwin's finches and the evolution of their beaks. A Brief History of Scientific Illustrations is a timeline of how science has been drawn.

The Evolving Theories of Evolution ↗

Illustrated portraits of Darwin's finches — Darwin's finches

Layout of the interactive finches visualisation — Story of the Finches · interactive

A double-helix timeline of the history of scientific illustration — A Brief History of Scientific Illustrations

Women in Science, and the mind

Digital illustrations celebrating women scientists, made for social media and the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, alongside a series on cognitive psychology.