Students discuss Scientific Art at Buck Institute

HSB III Students visited the Scientist as Artist display in the Foyer of the Buck Research Institute. Each student was pre-assigned one piece of art to research so they could give us a simple explanation about some of the Science behind the Art. Julie Mangada ( Research Scientist and PHS STEM cafe speaker) joined us to listen and was impressed with the academic effort of our students. Below are the students next to their picture. January 10, 2014

Nathalie 

                                                    This is a topography of the immunochemistry                                                                                                 of a mouse brain. The similarities of the                                                                                                        human brain and mouse brain are shockingly                                                                          similar in structure and organs.

Mariela

With over 3000 mutant strands, C. elegans are widely used in laboratory experiments such as aging, because they are so easily and cheaply maintained

Yadira

This is HeLa cells and it is just a long line of cells that came from a tumor from an Africa American. HeLa cells are used in various laboratories and are used to study the cause of diseases and to examine the offect of medicine. 

Tricia
This is a photo of a crystallized sulfur. Sulfur is inside our bodies and bond together to make several parts of our bodies. Sulfur helps the skin create elasticity, which creates a youthful look for people. Once the elasticity wears down with aging, wrinkles start to appear because of the looser bonds sulfur has with each other. 

Vanessa

The picture shows the co-localization of two enzymes with iron as a co-factor in a dopaminergic neuron. The yellow that is seen represents iron. Iron in the body is good, but high amounts of it has a negative effect. Parkinson's Disease is one of the diseases that is researched because its cause relates to the amount of iron in the body.

Michelle 

The artwork above displays a young and mature round worm. The one on the left is the mature one and as you can see has lost organs and nutrients. The young round worm is thicker and full of nutrients and organs. 

Franco

Cory

The image shown here is of an experiment done with mice with symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. The lines are the tracings of the paths that the mice took around a circular arena. The mice on the left with more tracings are the ones that have the symptom of wandering, the mice on the right are healthy.

Julie, showing us how Breast Cancer cells have a distinctly different, unhealthy look- bloated irregular- unsightly for sure !

Karissa

Leanna

Justin

Josh 

This is a picture of a data plot overlaid by a gene interaction network of a cell. A gene interaction network shows how certain parts of a cell

3D view of Juan and the 3D bird !

What you see here is the two different types of fat(adipose) cells put into a collage. The two types are known as white fat and brown fat. White fat tissue serves three main functions: heat insulation, mechanical cushion, and a source of energy. Brown fat is full of mitochondria. Studying fat for aging is vital since fat creates Leptin in our body, an important hormone in regulating appetite.

Julie and the class in front of her picture of Baby brain cells.

HSB at the Buck !!

Then we fed our  hungry brains at the dining hall on the Dominican campus and had an awesome campus tour !