Interesting opportunity for a science communicator!

WIP: Getting CellWalk ready for iPhone. I just completed performance optimizations (~30% improvement). This week I'm updating and working on the UI.

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Spring garden is at its peak! Ranunculus, scarlet flax, and linaria in full bloom. Bachelor buttons and California poppies just getting started. Been a good year--we got a lot of rain.

Two new biology themed wood puzzles from Nervous System! They feature artwork by scientist/artist David S. Goodsell 🏳️‍🌈 whose intricate watercolor paintings explore the molecular landscape of cells n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9537

Thanks for the nice comments on that post! My opinions on AI: Super flattered by this Goodsell X Art Nouveau. CC means anybody can use my pics, even AI. Generative AI will be amazing when it understands fingers, but I'm glad I'm close to retirement--I don't want any part of it.

I guess I'm out of business...
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We’re delighted to announce CellWalk for Apple Vision Pro. Tour the molecular machines inside a cell in this interactive and incredible learning experience.

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Our new paper on modeling bacterial nucleoids is online at Current Research in Structural Biology -- take a look! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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This little hunter flew over to our Scarlet Oak yesterday during lunch. What a treat!

I have a few coronavirus paintings in a show that's opening next week. To see the guide to the exhibit, take a look at: chaffey.edu/wignall/docs/s…

The full-size file for 'Bacteriophage T4 Infection' is freely available rcsb pdb 💉🧬💻🔬💊🌱🧠🦠 at: pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/goodse…. I drew it at a scale of 1 pixel/nm, so the file is huge and hopefully good for poster-size prints. Here's a detail of the bursting cell.

Thrilled to have this out! And David's beautiful drawing is on the cover! molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mb… (pdf here: theroglab.org/publications ) cc: Janet Iwasa David S. Goodsell 🏳️‍🌈 Margot Riggi Daniel Liu 👻 Hyun Kate Lee and Simon Curie

I packed a lot of information into the colors in 'Bacteriophage T4 Infection,' so I'm experimenting with color reductions for color blind people. Left: red channel that shows the T4 molecules; right: green channel that shows more cellular stuff. Let me know what you think!

Close up of the newly-infected bacterial cell from 'Bacteriophage T4 Infection.' I drew the illustration in Photoshop at a scale of 1 pixel/nanometer.

Finished 'Bacteriophage T4 Infection' this morning. The thin white line at left, which folds up and down 10 times, depicts the length of the T4 genome. After I add a few finishing touches and make sure I haven't forgotten anything, I'll put the full-size file rcsb pdb 💉🧬💻🔬💊🌱🧠🦠.

Making more progress on the T4 phage illustration. All the mRNA (viral and cellular) is in, added most of the cell wall, and just finished adding a bunch of chaperonins. Now I need to add lots and lots and lots of soluble molecules.

Making some progress on the T4 phage illustration! Phage DNA white, cellular DNA purple, ribosomes and RNApol cyan, plus a bunch of other stuff. Still so much to do...mRNA next.

Found some time today to work on the new illustration--here's a gallery of T4 in many stages of the life cycle, drawn at 1 pixel per nanometer. Now I need to drop them into the cells.

So wonderful!

After much procrastinating, getting down to work on another big virus scene--here's where I'm at so far.