#SciArt from the 2022 Artist-in-Residence Program! 🎨 1. Transcription 🎨 2. Genesis 🧑‍🎨 Ardria McDonald 🧑‍🔬 Uttiya Basu PhD Learn more about the art below ⬇️ #VI4AiR #BWFAiR BWFUND vanderbilt_artlab 🎨 1. It depicts #DNA transcription, as well as antigens to show that they are very closely related in the process of transcription and translation. Transcription of #Antibody coding genes drives somatic hypermutation and antibody diversity. 🎨 2. It represents how #Bcells develop, divide, and branch out to other organs from bone marrow, in which it all resembles a growing “tree”. 🧑‍🎨 Ardria McDonald is a #Biology and #Art major at fiskuniversity. Ardia is passionate about both the #art and the sciences, and they love to combine the two in their studies. #SciComm 🧑‍🔬 The Basu lab is interested in genetic, epigenetic and #RNA associated regulatory pathways that are required for the development of adaptive #immunity. basulabnyc.org