Jo Berry talking to Guests at the Opening of the Zeiss Imaging Centre, Munich
For the past two years, digital artist, Jo Berry, has been working in the lab with our researchers Dr Nick Holliday and Tim Self on her project Hijacking Natural Systems: A Journey of Discovery inside our Cells funded by the Wellcome Trust. She has been at the laboratory bench investigating the hunger hormone ghrelin and its receptor in living cells using Zeiss confocal and TIRF microscopes.
As well as producing brilliant images to illustrate the activity of cells from a drug perspective, the project also aimed to bring this work to the wider community in a Public Understanding of Science initiative. Jo was successful in obtaining funding for this from the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England, and her images have already been exhibited in Derby Museum and Art Gallery and published in various journals including The Telegraph, Wellcome Newsletter, Artist Newsletter, RMS In Focus and others.
Tim Self, Nick’s co-researcher in the Cell Signalling Group, and Jo were very honoured to be invited to the opening of the prestigious new Zeiss Imaging Centre in Munich on 11th October where Jo gave a talk about her work. Zeiss have built the Imaging Centre so that they can showcase their latest, state of the art microscopy and imaging software and invite researchers in to assess the equipment and perform their own experiments. It is their intention to invite artists to exhibit their work at the Centre. This work was chosen because of its unique interaction between science and art. We are very excited that Cell Signalling research, Jo Berry’s talent and our friends and colleagues at Zeiss have come together to produce such good results.
More information about Zeiss
To see more of Jo’s images: http://www.joberry-artist.blogspot.com/
And a film following the project in action: http://www/biomedsci/outstanding-facilities/cell-signalling-imaging/index.aspx
For more information contact: Tim Self
Posted on Monday 7th November 2011