# @vumc_vi4 on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CrOfE6rJSsH
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11697308-vumc-vi4-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-04-19T17:36:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** VI4 (@vumc_vi4) — https://gondola.cc/vumc_vi4

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Check out this work from the 2022 Artist-in-Residence Program! 🎨 
1. A Look Into Alzheimer's
2. Intracellular Signaling Pathway
🧑‍🎨 Nishita Maknojia 
🧑‍🔬 John Lukens, PhD
Learn more about the art below ⬇️
#scicomm #VI4AiR #BWFAiR BWFUND vanderbilt_artlab

🎨 1. Showcases a healthy, normal brain besides an Alzheimer’s brain. The magnifying glass zooms into the diseased brain to highlight how microglia plays a role in AD pathogenesis by releasing inflammatory mediators which can contribute to amyloid beta plaque aggregation. 
🎨 2. An abstract image that represents the novel immune intracellular signaling pathway and how activating this immune pathway can function to limit the spread of damaging amyloid beta aggregates in the brain. #SciArt

🧑‍🎨 Nishita Maknojia is a graduate of utaustintx and has a B.S. degree in Human #Biology. #Art has always been a part of her life and she uses it as a creative outlet. The program allowed her to combine her love for art and science. She intends to pursue a career in medicine!

🧑‍🔬 John Lukens, PhD is a neuroimmunologist studying MS, autism, Alzheimer's disease, and brain injury at uvaschoolofmedicine!

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art, sciart, bwfair, scicomm, vi4air, biology

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