Today’s #SciArt comes in the form of animation! 🎨 #COVID19 Causes Lung #Inflammation 🧑‍🎨 Kim Ly 🧑‍🔬 The Catherine Blish Lab / Arjun Rustagi Learn more about the art below ⬇️ #VI4AiR #BWFAiR @BWFUND @vanderbilt_artlab 🎨 An animation personifying the irony that even though #COVID19 infects the lungs, it is the lungs’ response that triggers severe sickness for the body. #SciArt 🧑‍🎨 Kim is an artist of all sorts! They like experimenting with #DigitalArt and movement, but loves sculpting, writing and painting, as well! #SciComm 🧑‍🔬 The Blish lab is dedicated to better understanding host-pathogen interactions to develop new treatments for infectious diseases. They try to understand how viruses like #SARSCoV2, #HIV, #influenza, & dengue virus cause disease, with a particular focus on innate immune cells.