Kari Herrington

This was a quick sketch for the super kind postdoc Lisa Randolf who has kindly been providing me with samples to test on our microscope.

Congratulations to Takeshi Tsusaka on their recent publication on Reversible histone deacetylase activity www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Also, thank you to Takeshi for acknowledging our core facility, putting in hardware information about the microscope, and telling me about it all!!!!

These are beautiful!

Thanks!

I just like to make my images colorblind friendly, which was the color choice. I could make the light path text multi colored though!

Microscopes are Analog to Digital devices!

I drew this for teaching purposes.
#art #SciArt #artwork

Thanks for the recommendation!

The sticky note response to when someone tells you your age means “years more of experience” than them
#art #comic

Live sketch time!
Train commuters.
#art #livesketch #sketch

Anyone in the SF Bay Area?
Berkeley public library has a comic on this weekend!

www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/events/bpl-c...

Osmotic pressure!!!
This is a drawing drom a few years ago insprired by @katrinavelle.bsky.social amoeba undergoing seome osmotic pressure!
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Always 💖

Don't make me tap the sign

Slow-mo Calcium response!
Here is a little neutrophil with a calcium sensor doing its best to respond to a chemoattractant!

Work done by Evelyn Strickland inspired this! Check out her paper on self-extinguishing relay waves in neutrophil swarming

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Decorated pumpkins at work! I had to go with a Vampire microscope because microscopes are light vampires.
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Bonus for anyone who noticed its deadly ultraviolet wings!
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#sciart #acrylic #microscope #vampire

Magnification is not resolution!
Resolution is the minimum distance required to distinguish between two objects. You need to take into account how light spreads and refraction. Magnification just makes things bigger.
I drew this for a workshop I’m helping to teach!

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#sciartseptember day 4: cursed
There is nothing more cursed in this world then doing lab work on the weekend.

#art #artwork #watercolormarkers #ink #cells #sketch #sketchbook #traditionalart

I just realized it was still August…

I’m behind on challenges because I guess it was Smaugust, for some reason I thought there was a Smaugtember with all the dragon images on my feed.
Anyway it made me want to draw a dragon and I just like the idea of a giant powerful dragon performing delicate work.

#art #sketch #sketchbook

PCR machines are the worst!
Superstition is abound in the lab, so here is a bit of science humor with another little cartoon I drew on the train.

#art #cartoon #sciart #watercolormarker #cells #ink

Morning commute 8/19/24
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#art #artwork #watercolormarkers #ink #commute #lifedrawing #sketch #sketchbook #traditionalart

Turns out I can’t help but draw microscopes on things. This ended up being an exercise in transposition to draw a microscope on this little marmal toy. I feels like a little puzzle that I will need to work on.

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I found a new toy that you are supposed to draw on and wash off called a marmal (@lovemarmals)

The first order of business was giving it a brain, which led to imagining what its nervous system would look like. It turned out a little bit like a supervillain.

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Clown Fish!
From the aquarium, done with acrylic inks!
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#art #artwork #acrylicinc #ink #fish #aquarium

Watercolors at the beach park!
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#art #artwork #watercolor #ink #beach #drawing #traditionalart

Beach supplies: sketchbook and watercolors
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Optogenetic control of YAP reveals a dynamic communication code for stem cell fate and proliferation YAP is a transcriptional regulator that controls pluripotency, cell fate, and proliferation. How cells ensure the selective activation of YAP effector genes is unknown. This knowledge is essential to ...

If you want to read more about the science for how Kirsten Meyer used optogenetics to study the effects of YAP proteins in stem cells, check out her paper here www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

Optogenetics!
These little cells will have their proteins translocated by our spinning disk microscope and a blue light optoplate!

I drew this to congratulate Kirsten Meyer whom I have had the opportunity to work with over the last few years! Now she is off to start her own lab at Yale!

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Live drawings from the commute!
Also thanks to the person who sat next to me on the train today and complimented my drawing ☺️ it’s always nice to hear!

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Compu-mancy:
Harvesting computer parts from one computer to keep your computer of interest running!
It is closely adjacent to scope-romancy, because the microscope is reliant on that computer.
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