Science is beautiful as well as practical

Our researchers have created stunning pictures that are on display throughout our facilities

The emissions captured in these experiments can be given any colour, and overlaid with other selected colours

If you’re curious about the technical details of these images, check out our list below

An image of a larval zebrafish retina. Depicted in red and green are Muller glia, a cell responsible for monitoring the health of the retinal environment. The image is counterstained in blue to label all cell nuclei

Electron micrograph of the Golgi organelle

Output from the Bio-Analytic Resource for Plant Science depicting expression levels of the ABI3 gene and its relationships to other genes

Yellow microtubules in the pavement cells of the leaf

cells from the elongation zone of the Arabidopsis root

A panel of 4 Arabidopsis roots including root hairs

aniline blue-stained pollen tubes in the stigma (top) and along the style (bottom)

False coloured image of an electron micrograph of Drosophila (fruit fly) retina

A section through a wild type seed 14 days after fertilization by Jasmin Patel

Electron micrograph of a dechorionated Drosophila (fruit fly) embryo

Electron micrographs of two arabidopsis seed. left is a seed from a plant mutated in the FUS3 gene, right is an unmutated seed

C elegans worm with Histone2b labelled in red

In this transgenic zebrafish larva, all nuclei are labeled in red, while radial glia (stem cells) have been marked in green through Cre-lox recombination. Yellow is observed where the signals overlap. The experiment enables tracking of the glial cells and their progeny

Orca whale in the sea with the structure of the rhodopsin protein coming out of the orca's eye. The phylogenetic tree at the bottom shows how this protein has evolved in whales

Alex Lu used machine learning on protein sequence to predict protein localization in yeast. This panel shows the predicted localization for multiple proteins in the cell in green. The larger cell shows the nucleus in blue and the cytoplasm in purple.

Electron micrograph of a dechorionated Drosophila (fruit fly) embryo

Whimsical Worm Windmills uses confocal microscopy of a reporter monitoring alternative splicing to create artistic interpretations of in vivo splicing patterns in worms (C. elegans). A fluorescent red protein is generated when the alternative exon is included while a green fluorescent protein is produced when skipped

Commissioned Art

Cross section of a root tip showing the action of auxin through the different cell types

Data Mining - an allegorical painting of the process of scientific investigation in life sciences by Ian Shenyen Hsu

This allegorical painting depicts the action of enhancers on gene transcription. DNA strands recede to the horizon wrapped in bales of hay representing histones. The gene and enhancer region in the foreground are the only DNA not wrapped in histones. A diverse group of people representing ten different transcription factors interact dynamically with entangled gene and enhancer DNA. This dance results in a blazing bonfire representing robust transcription producing the emerging transcripts

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Commissioned Art