Have You Ever Seen a Molecule? Art, Science and Visual Communication
Thursday, 25 March 2010 to Friday, 26 March 2010
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge

Thursday, 25 March


9.00 - 9.30

Registration – Tea & Coffee

9.30 - 9.40

Introduction 

Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard

(MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, UK)


9.40- 11.00

 

Session I
Chairs: Mathias Gmachl & Rachel Wingfield (Loop.pH, UK)

John Walker (MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, UK)

The mitochondria in science and art

 

Shirley Wheeler (University of Sunderland, UK)

Design and science – an approach to effective communication

 

Discussion

 

11.00 - 11.30

Tea & Coffee

11.30 - 13.00

Session II
Chair: Chitra Ramalingam (CRASSH, UK)

Marc H. W. van Mil (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

The inner life of the cell’: from visual model to mental model and back

 

Norberto Serpente (UCL, London & Max Planck Institute, Germany)

Visualising the invisibility of the cytoplasm from Wilson to Alberts: A look at textbooks

                       

Courtney Salvey (University of Kent, UK)

Seeing Machines: Mechanical images in nineteenth-century natural theological popular science

 

Discussion 



13.00 - 14.30

Lunch

14.30 - 17.00

Session III WORKSHOP          

Mathias Gmachl & Rachel Wingfield (Loop.pH, UK)

Handcrafted architectural lacework: Smart geometry for the masses

 

Discussion

17.00 - 18.00

Wine Reception, CRASSH Meeting Room 



19.30 - 22.30
Conference Dinner, St John’s College, Wordsworth Room



Friday, 26 March

 

9.00 -  9.30

Tea & Coffee

9.30 - 11.00

Session IV
Chair: Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard (MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, UK)

Poul Nissen (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Individual or in group - how do we see proteins at work?

 

Felice Frankel (Harvard University, USA)

More than pretty pictures

 

Discussion

 

11.00 - 11.30

Tea & Coffee

11.30 - 13.00

Session V
Chair: Edmund Kunji (MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, UK)

Richard Perham (University of Cambridge, UK)

The Art of Self-Assembly: Molecules and More

 

David Goodsell (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)

Visual representation from atoms to cells: New work from the machinery of life

 

Discussion and concluding remarks

  

13.00 

Lunch