UPCOMING EVENTS
October 25, 2024
Invited Talk: Utah State University
Janet will be the Friday evening speaker at the Hansen Life Sciences Retreat at Utah State University.
December 14, 2024
Breaking Barriers and Bouncing Back: Mastering Communication and Resilience in Science
Janet will participate in a workshop on effective communication and resilience at the ASCB Annual meeting in San Diego.
February 6, 2024
Invited Talk: School of Environment, Society & Sustainability
Janet will give a talk as part of the spring colloquium series WEST (“Weekly Environment and Society Talks”) at the University of Utah.
April 8, 2025
Research in Progress
Ann will talk about her research as part of the Biochemistry RIP series.
April 14-15, 2025
Invited Talk: Augsburg University
Janet will give the Sverdrop Lecture at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, MN.
September 20, 2025
Invited Talk: Women Chemist Committee
Janet will give a virtual talk for the CA Section’s Women Chemist Committee (WCC) meeting.
NEWS & PAST EVENTS
October 14, 2024
Welcome, Dillon!
A big welcome to Dillon Lee to the Animation lab!
September 24, 2024
Invited Talk: Genentech
Janet will give a seminar as part of Genentech’s “Journeys in Science” seminar series.
September 5, 2024
Tenure talk!
Janet will give her tenure talk in HSEB 1700 at 4pm.
August 15, 2024
Blender Molecular Nodes Workshop
The Animation Lab hosts a workshop by Brady Johnston, PhD on Molecular Nodes.
July 19, 2024
Invited Talk: Gulbenkian Institute
Janet will give a seminar at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência as part of the IGC Friday Seminar series.
June 7, 2024
Invited Talk: EMBO Course on Integrative Structural Biology
Janet will give a remote talk as part of a course that will be held in Grenoble, France.
June 1, 2024
Welcome back, Ann!
Ann Hui Liu returns to the Animation Lab as a research faculty member!
May 30-31, 2024
Water and Life Interface Institute (WALII) Retreat
Janet and Rachel will participate (and share project updates) at the WALII annual retreat.
May 23, 2024
Northwest Middle School STEAM Day
Janet and Margot will hold a series of stop-motion animation workshops at Northwest Middle School’s STEAM day.
May 11, 2024
Emerson Elementary School STEM Fair
Rachel, Janet, and Will Foreman (Starr lab) represented the U of U Biochemistry Dept at Emerson Elementary’s annual STEM Fair.
March 16, 2024
Invited Talk: DAIDS Friday Virtual Seminar
Janet will give a remote talk as part of the NIAID DAIDS Friday Seminar series.
January 17-19, 2024
CellVis2 Conference
Janet will participate in a small gathering of experts on whole-cell digital integration held at the Scripps Institute.
December 6, 2023
Invited Talk: University of Toronto Mississauga
Janet will give a talk remotely as part of the Biology Seminar series.
September 22-23, 2023
Invited Talk: Harvard MCB Retreat
Janet will give a keynote talk at the annual retreat of Harvard’s Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology (MCB).
July 10-14, 2023
Invited Talks: Croucher Foundation Summer Course
Janet will give a public seminar and an informal technical talk at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
May 3, 2023
Invited Talk: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Janet will talk at the Lawrence Berkeley Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging (MBIB) divisional retreat..
April 20, 2023
Invited Talk: Microbiology Society Annual Conference
Janet will give talk as part of “Integrative Virology: A Celebration of Interdisciplinarity” symposium at the 2023 Microbiology Society Annual Conference in Birmingham, UK.
March 7, 2023
Invited Talk: Illinois State University
Janet was selected as the 2023 speaker for the R. Omar Rilett and Evelyn Rilett Family Life Sciences Lecture Series.
February 23, 2023
Invited Talk: Washington University in St. Louis
Janet gave a virtual talk for InPrint, a student and post-doc run organization at WUSTL.
February 8-February 11, 2023
Invited Talk: EMBO Workshop: In-Situ Structural Biology
Janet will give talk as part of a workshop held at the Advanced Training Centre of EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany.
January 30-February 3, 2023
Sterling Visiting Professorship
Janet will spend a week with the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford University as a Sterling Visiting Professor giving a talk and a series of workshops.
January 18, 2023
Invited Talk: CCMB Biologue
Janet will give a virtual talk as part of the CCMB Biologue series at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in India.
December 14, 2022
Invited Talk: DWI Interactive Talks
Janet will give a virtual talk as part of the DWI Interactive Talk series at the DWI Leibniz-Institute for Interactive Materials in Aachen, Germany.
December 3, 2022
Invited Talk: ASCB Annual Meeting, Science and Art: Bridging Two Creative Universes
Janet will give a talk as part of the Special Interest Subgroup at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in Washington DC.
November 30-December 2, 2022
Invited Talk: Molecular Biology Society of Japan
Janet will give a virtual talk in the “Synergetic liquid-liquid phase separation in and on cell membranes” session.
October 21, 2022
Keynote talk: Life Sciences Symposium
Janet will give a keynote talk as part of the Life Sciences Symposium at Western Washington University.
October 11-13, 2022
Workshop: Re-imagining a cellular space occupied by condensates
Janet and Ofer Rog (Utah Biology) will co-organize a conference focused on the visualization of condensates within a cellular context.
October 6, 2022
Biochemistry RIP
Margot will present her work in the Biochemistry Research-in-progress (RIP).
October 5-6, 2022
ZENITH Seminar and Workshop
Janet will give a remote seminar and talk for trainees in the Zebrafish International Training Hub (ZENITH) program.
September 28, 2022
Invited panelist: Communicating Biophysics
Janet will take part in an online panel discussion as part of the Division of Biological Physics engagement events for the American Physical Society.
September 23, 2022
Invited talk: 2022 Toledo CellulART
Janet will participate as the invited Scientist/Artist at Toledo CellulART, held by the School of Visual Arts at the University of Toledo
September 11-14, 2022
Invited talk: 9th International Conference on Electron Tomography
Janet will give a talk at the 9th international Conference on Electron Tomography, held in Egmond aan Zee in the Netherlands.
August 1-5, 2022
SBGrid Animation Workshop
Janet will teach a 5-day workshop on 3D animation using Maya for SBGrid at Harvard Medical School.
July 24, 2022
Eternacon
Janet will give a short virtual talk during Eternacon, a conference for Eterna players.
June 2, 2022
Welcome to summer interns Trish and Sarah!
Trish Luu and Sarah Jane Nelson begin their summer internships with the Animation lab!
June 1, 2022
STEAM Day
Janet and Grace held a series of stop-motion animation workshops at Northwest Middle School’s STEAM day.
May 6, 2022
Invited talk: UT Southwestern
Janet will be the keynote speaker for the annual retreat of the Molecular Biophysics graduate program at UTSW.
April 27, 2022
Invited talk: Stowers Institute
Janet will give a talk as part of the Stowers Institute’s Wednesday Lecture Series.
March 16-18, 2022
VIZBI 2022
Janet will chair a session as part of VIZBI 2022, held as a hybrid meeting at University of Southern California’s Bridge Institute.
February 19, 2022
Invited talk: 2022 Biophysical Society Meeting
Janet will give a talk as part of the 2022 Cryo EM Subgroup Symposium of the 2022 Biophysical Society Meeting (San Francisco, CA).
February 12, 2022
Invited talk: Ronald E. Hatcher Science on Saturday Lecture Series
Janet will give a talk as part of the virtual Science on Saturday 2022 lecture series, geared towards high school students, hosted by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
January 24, 2022
Invited talk: U. Wisconsin-Madison
Janet will give a talk as the 2021-2022 student-invited speaker in the Biochemistry Colloquium series at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
November 4, 2021
Invited talk: Copenhagen Bioscience Snapshot Seminar
Janet will give a virtual seminar in a series organized by Ph.D. students of the University of Copenhagen Bioscience Ph.D. program.
October 21-22, 2021
Department of Biochemistry Retreat
Janet and Matt Miller will co-organize the fifth annual Department of Biochemistry retreat, which will be held at the Lodges at Deer Valley.
October 18, 2021
Welcome Francheska!
The Animation Lab welcomes postdoctoral fellow Francheska Lopez Rivera, Ph.D. to the lab!
October 7, 2021
Research in Progress (RIP)
Animation Lab members Ann Liu and Margot Riggi share their work with the Biochemistry department.
September 24, 2021
Rising Stars Figure Design Workshop
Janet will hold a workshop on figure design for graduate student Rising Stars in Neuroscience.
September 22, 2021
COVID Information Commons presentation
Janet gave a lightning talk about the SARS-CoV-2 project for the COVID Information Commons network.
September 17, 2021
Invited talk: University of Washington
Janet will be the virtual keynote speaker for the Basic Sciences Division retreat at the University of Washington.
September 14 & 20, 2021
Animation/Video Workshops
The Animation Lab held two workshops to help Biochemistry Department members create videos for outreach.
July 5-8, 2021
Invited talk: Microscience Microscopy Congress 2021
Janet will give a plenary talk at the Microscience Microscopy Congress 2021 (mmc2021).
June 20-23, 2021
Invited talk: 24th Swedish Conference of Macromolecular Structure and Function
Janet will give a virtual keynote talk as part of the 24th Swedish Conference on Macromolecular Structure and Function arranged by the Swedish Society for Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
May 4, 2021
Invited talk: Chemistry-Biology Interface Lunch
Janet will give a brief talk and answer questions about her career as part of U. Penn’s Chemistry Biology Interface (CBI) lunch series with graduate students.
April 30, 2021
Invited talk: ASBMB Annual Meeting
Shraddha will present her work on visualizing metabolic flux as part of the ASBMB annual meeting.
April 30, 2021
Science outreach: Peers’n’Pubs
Shraddha will discuss her work on scientific visualization with her twin sister Deeksha in this event hosted by Taste of Science.
April 22, 2021
Invited talk: U. Colorado Anschutz
Janet will give a virtual talk as a graduate student-invited speaker during the 2021 Molecular Biology Symposium.
April 20, 2021
Visiting scholar in Foundations Lab Art + Science series, Pratt Institute
Janet will give a talk and workshop to first-year students at the Pratt Institute in New York City.
March 22, 2021
Invited talk: RPI
Janet will give a virtual talk for the Department of Biological Sciences Seminar series at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
March 18, 2021
Invited talk: CiQUS
Janet will give a virtual talk for the Centro Singular de Investigación en Química Biolóxica e Materiais Moleculares (CiQUS), Spain.
March 5, 2021
Invited talk: UNC Chapel Hill
Janet will give a talk for two graduate student organizations, the UNC Science Writing and Communication Club and the UNC Science Policy Advocacy group.
March 3, 2021
Invited talk: Science Clubs International
Janet will give a short presentation and participate in a panel discussion during a STEM workshop held by Science Clubs International.
January 29, 2021
Invited talk: UC Berkeley (rescheduled)
Janet will give a talk as a graduate student-invited speaker as part of the Marian E. Koshland seminar series.
December 17, 2020
Biochemistry Research in Progress (RIP)
Shraddha will present her work at the Departmental RIP seminar.
December 16, 2020
Invited talk: BioMolViz Workshop (Virtual)
Janet will give a plenary talk for the BioMolViz group, which seeks to promote molecular visual literacy.
November 6, 2020
Invited talk: Emory BCDB Fall Symposium (Virtual meeting)
Janet gave a talk for the Biochemistry, Cell, and Developmental Biology program at Emory University.
October 29-30, 2020
Department of Biochemistry Retreat (Virtual meeting)
Janet is co-organizing the fourth annual Department of Biochemistry retreat, which was held as a virtual 2-day meeting.
October 26, 2020
Invited talk: IEEE VIS Conference (Virtual meeting)
Janet will speak at the VisInPractice session at the IEEE VIS conference that was held online.
October 14, 2020
Invited talk: City College of New York and the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
Janet gave a talk as part of the Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign seminar series.
October 7-8, 2020
Invited talk: Eureka! 2020 Symposium (Virtual meeting)
Janet will give a talk at the Eureka! 2020 Symposium organized by the Ph.D. students of the University of Wuerzburg.
September 24-25, 2020
Invited talk: University of Washington (canceled/postponed due to COVID-19)
Janet will give a talk at the University of Washington’s Division of Basic Sciences retreat, held at Semiahmoo Resort.
September 14-17, 2020
Invited talk: Horizons in Molecular Biology (Virtual meeting)
Grace will give a talk at the 14th Career Fair of the International Ph.D. Student Symposium Horizons in Molecular Biology in Goettingen, Germany.
August 2-6, 2020
Invited talk: Microscopy & Microanalysis 2020 Meeting (Virtual meeting)
Janet will give a talk as part of the 3D EM symposium at the 2020 M&M Meeting (Milwaukee, WI).
July 5-11, 2020
Invited talk: Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (canceled/postponed due to COVID-19)
Janet will give a keynote talk at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI), held at the University of Utah.
June 3-6, 2020
Invited talk: EMBL/EMBO Symposium on Microtubules (Virtual meeting)
Janet will give a perspective lecture at this meeting, which will be held at the EMBL Advanced Training Center in Heidelberg, Germany.
May 27-30, 2020
VIZBI 2020 & Visual Storytelling in Biology Workshop (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Janet will chair the Proteins Session at VIZBI 2020, held at USC, Los Angeles, CA, and will give a talk as part of the “Visual Storytelling in Biology” workshop that will be held on May 30th.
May 1, 2020
Invited talk: UT Southwestern (postponed for 1 year due to COVID-19)
Janet will be the keynote speaker for the annual retreat of the Molecular Biophysics graduate program at UTSW.
April 24, 2020
Invited talk: UC Berkeley (cancelled/postponed due to COVID-19)
Janet will give a talk as a graduate student-invited speaker as part of the Marian E. Koshland seminar series.
April 6, 2020
Science Cafe (cancelled due to COVID-19)
As a Science Communication Fellow at the Natural History Museum of Utah, Grace will give a brief public talk about science visualization. NHMU, 6-7:30pm.
April 2-5, 2020
SIGGRAPH 2020 Computer Animation Festival Electronic Theater Jury
Janet will participate as part of an expert jury to select content and award winners for the 2020 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival. Listen to this SIGGRAPH podcast about what it was like participating in this jury!
March 28-30, 2020
Invited talk: Plant Cell Atlas Initiative (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Janet will give a plenary talk at a 2-day workshop on the Plant Cell Atlas Initiative held by the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford.
March 23-27, 2020
Sterling Visiting Professorship (cancelled/postponed due to COVID-19)
Janet will spend a week with the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford University as a Sterling Visiting Professor.
March 16, 2020
Invited talk: University of Minnesota (cancelled/postponed due to COVID-19)
Janet will give a talk at the University of Minnesota’s Chemical Biology Colloquium Series as the student-selected speaker.
February 10, 2020
Invited talk: iMM, Lisbon
Janet will give the Monday lecture at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) in Lisbon, Portugal.
January 14, 2020
Invited talk: SACNAS
Janet will give a talk for the University of Utah SACNAS Chapter.
December 7-11, 2019
ASCB/EMBO 2019
Janet will attend the annual meeting of ASCB, and will present a poster on CryoEM-101 and participate in a Science Advocacy panel (Monday 12/9 at 12pm).
November 8-9, 2019
ILLUMINATE Salt Lake
The Science of HIV life cycle animation will be a part of the ILLUMINATE Salt Lake event, a two-day, family-friendly light art and creative tech festival held in partnership with the Utah Arts Alliance. The animation will be projected on the clock tower between 5pm to 10pm at The Gateway (400 W 100 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101).
November 4-6, 2019
KAUST Cell Visualization Summit 2019
Janet will participate in a 3-day meeting that focuses on whole cell visualization, modeling and simulation.
November 1, 2019
Welcome, Ann!
The Animation Lab welcomes postdoctoral fellow Ann Liu!
November 1-2, 2019
Invited talk: Neuroscience Program Snowbird Symposium
Janet will give a talk as part of the annual symposium held by the University of Utah Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience.
October 10-11, 2019
Department of Biochemistry Retreat
Janet is co-organizing the third annual Department of Biochemistry retreat, which will be held at the Lodges at Deer Valley.
October 8, 2019
Invited talk: Stanford University
Janet will give a talk as part of the Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology seminar series.
September 3, 2019
Welcome, Fangfei!
The Animation Lab welcomes undergraduate student Fangfei Ye, who will be doing a 6-month internship with the Lab.
August 16, 2019
Effective Communication in Science
Janet will give a short presentation as part of a panel at the Bioscience student retreat for the incoming Molecular Biology & Biological Chemistry first-year students at the University of Utah.
July 1-8, 2019
Physiology Course, Marine Biological Laboratory
Janet will participate as a visiting scholar in the Physiology Course at the Marine Biological Labs (Woods Hole, MA).
June 27-28, 2019
Structural Biology Related to HIV/AIDS Meeting
Grace will attend this meeting, held at the Natcher Center, NIH, and present the latest work on the Science of HIV project during the poster session.
June 3, 2019
STEAM Day
Shraddha, Grace and Janet will hold a series of stop-motion animation workshops for Northwest Middle School students. See Shraddha’s writeup about STEAM Day here.
May 8-10, 2019
Invited talk: Visualization Conference at The Exploratorium
Janet will speak in a NSF-sponsored visualization conference at San Francisco’s Exploratorium.
April 15-19, 2019
TED 2019
As a TED Senior Fellow, Janet will attend the 2019 TED conference in Vancouver, BC. She will giving a short talk in the TED Unplugged session.
March 20-21, 2019
Invited talk: University of Toledo
Janet will give a keynote talk in the 2019 Graduate Research Forum at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences.
March 13, 2019
iBiology: Visual Communication in Biology
Janet gives a 3-part introduction to biological visualization for iBiology.
March 13-15, 2019
Invited talk: VIZBI
Janet will give a keynote talk at the 2019 VIZBI conference in Heidelberg.
March 11, 2019
Invited talk: EPN Grenoble
March 8, 2019
Invited talk: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Janet will give a talk as part of LMB's seminar series.
March 6, 2019
Invited talk: MPI Dortmund
March 5, 2019
Invited talk: University of Würzburg
February 1, 2019
Invited talk: University of Toronto (canceled due to weather)
Janet will give a talk for the Department of Biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
January 31, 2019
Invited talk: Johns Hopkins University
Janet will give a talk as part of the Department of Cell Biology seminar series.
January 29, 2019
Invited talk: University of Oregon
Janet will give an evening talk as part of the BEseries.
January 16, 2019
Welcome, Shraddha!
The Animation Lab welcomes postdoc Shraddha Nayak!
January 14, 2019
Invited talk: University of Pennsylvania
Janet will give a talk for U. Penn's Cell & Molecular Biology Ph.D. program as a student-invited speaker.
December 17, 2018
Invited talk: Yale University
Janet will give a talk for the Yale Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry department as a student-invited speaker.
December 9, 2018
Project Quorum
Janet will be presenting a poster and doing a live demonstration of Project Quroum at the 2018 annual meeting of the ASCB (San Diego, CA). Come to Poster B50 between 1:30-3:00pm on Sunday to learn more!
December 3, 2018
NIH Common Fund CryoEM Kickoff Meeting
Janet and Peter will share progress made on the CryoEM-101 project at NIH.
November 26-27, 2018
Department of Biochemistry Retreat
Janet is co-organizing the second annual Department of Biochemistry retreat, which will be held at the Lodges at Deer Valley.
November 14, 2018
Invited talk: Medical College of Wisconsin
Janet will give a talk in the Department of Biochemistry as the student-selected speaker at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
October 19-21, 2018
Invited talk: UC Davis MCB Annual Retreat
Janet will give the plenary lecture at the annual retreat of the UC Davis Molecular and Cellular Biology training program, held at Sierra Camp at Fallen Leaf Lake.
October 16, 2018
Invisible Worlds Colloquium at AMNH
Janet will participate in a 1-day colloquium at the American Museum of Natural History (NYC) to explore possible scientific content for the Invisible Worlds theatre (opening in 2021).
October 15, 2018
Welcome, Grace!
The Animation Lab welcomes its first member, Grace Hsu!
October 15, 2018
Invited talk: Pennsylvania State University
Janet will give a keynote talk as part of a mini-meeting on "The Art of Cell Biology" held by the Center for Cellular Dynamics at Penn State.
October 8, 2018
Invited talk: University of Richmond
October 3-4, 2018
Invited talk: Conway Festival of Research
Janet will give a keynote talk as part of the 2018 annual Festival of Research at the Conway Institute, University College Dublin.
September 28, 2018
Invited talk: Oklahoma State University
Janet will give the annual Ewing Seminar on Bridging Biology and the Arts and Humanities.
September 24, 2018
Invited talk: Texas A&M
Janet will give a talk at the Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology's Technology Forum as part of the Distinguished Lecturer Series.
August 29, 2018
Invited talk: University of Colorado-Boulder
Janet will give a talk as part of the UC Boulder Department of Biochemistry seminar series.
July 31, 2018
Invited talk: Idaho INBRE Program
Janet will give the keynote scientific address at the 2019 INBRE Summer Research Conference in Moscow, Idaho.
July 11, 2018
Apple MacBook Pro Launch
Janet was invited by Apple to participate in the 2018 MacBook Pro Launch in New York City. Read more about it here, here and here.
May 31 - June 1, 2018
Invited talk: Vivid Sydney
Janet will give a presentation targeted for a general audience on June 1 and a masterclass on molecular animation on May 31 as part of Vivid Sydney.
May 28, 2018
Invited talk: Garvan Institute
Janet will give a presentation as part of the 2018 Leaders in Science and Society seminar series at the Garvan Institute.
May 16, 2018
ASCB Council Hill Day
Janet will go to Capital Hill to meet with members of the House of Representatives, the Senate and staff members as part of ASCB's Council Hill Day.
May 4, 2018
Invited talk: University of Oslo
Janet will give a talk as part of a monthly seminar series of the Oslo branch of the Norwegian Biochemical Society's Biological Interest Group (BIG).
April 26, 2018
A Cellular Biologist Animates the Life Cycle of HIV in this Hypnotic Video
In this TED Ideas blog post, Janet talks about the Science of HIV project, and the newly released full HIV life cycle animation.
April 24, 2018
Spark Science
Janet was interviewed by Regina Barber DeGraaf for the Spark Science podcast.
April 20, 2018
Science Unwrapped
Janet will give a public talk as part of the Science Unwrapped series at Utah State University, on the theme of "Science of Art."
April 10-14, 2018
TED 2018
As a TED Senior Fellow, Janet will attend the 2018 TED conference in Vancouver, BC.
March 6, 2018
Invited Talk: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Janet will give a talk as part of the graduate seminar series in the Department of Biology and Biotechnology.
March 5, 2018
Invited Talk: University of Massachusetts, Worcester
Janet will give a talk sponsored by the Center for Biomedical Career Development, the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and the RNA Therapeutics Institute.
March 4, 2018
Invited Presentation: CROI
Janet will present her work on HIV at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston, MA.
February 28 - March 1, 2018
Workshop on Support Systems for Scientists' Communication and Engagement
Janet will participate in this invitation-only workshop on scientific communication and engagement, sponsored by the Kavli, Moore, Packard and Rita Allen Foundations, and held at HHMI headquarters.
January 29, 2018
How Pixar's cartoon cheese led to a smarter view of science
Jennifer Bisset at CNET writes about molecular animation, with interviews with Janet, Gael McGill and Drew Berry.
December 4, 2017
Introducing: Project Quorum
Janet will be presenting a poster on Project Quroum at the 2017 annual meeting of the ASCB (Philadelphia, PA). Come to Poster B39 between 12-1:30pm on Monday to learn more!
December 3, 2017
Communicating Science through Visual Media
Janet and Sarah Goodwin (iBiology) have organized a session consisting of short talks and a discussion about science communication at the 2017 annual meeting of the ASCB (Philadelphia, PA).
November 17, 2017
Scientist in the Spotlight
As a Science Communication Fellow at the Natural History Museum of Utah, Janet will demonstrate how animation can help scientists. NHMU, 2-4pm.
October 25-27, 2017
Scientific Visualization Conference
Janet will present work at a conference organized by the American Museum of Natural History and the Centers for Computational Astrophysics and Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute.
October 13, 2017
UTEMED
Janet will give a short talk during the School of Medicine Alumni Weekend (Post Theater, Fort Douglas).
October 10-11, 2017
Department of Biochemistry Retreat
Janet is co-organizing the first annual Department of Biochemistry retreat at the Silver Baron Lodge at the Deer Valley Resort.
October 9, 2017
This artist-scientist is making the invisible, visible
Janet is interviewed in Forbes' The Limit Does Not Exist podcast.
September 28-29, 2017
Molecular Animation Summit
Miriah Meyer (SCI, U of Utah) and Janet co-organize a small, invitation-only meeting to discuss the current state and future directions of molecular animation.
September 21, 2017
Brief but Spectacular
Janet is featured in a "Brief but Spectacular" segment on PBS Newshour.
September 13, 2017
Science Cafe
As a Science Communication Fellow at the Natural History Museum of Utah, Janet will give a brief public talk about how animation can help scientists. NHMU, 6-7:30pm.
August 27-30, 2017
TED Global 2017
As a TED Senior Fellow, Janet will attend the 2017 TED Global conference in Arusha, Tanzania.
August 6-11, 2017
Invited Talk: GRC on Visualization in Science & Education
Janet will give a plenary talk at this multidisciplinary Gordan Research Converence, to be held at Bates College, Maine.
June 29-30, 2017
Structural Biology Related to HIV/AIDS
Janet will present a poster at this annual meeting, held at NIH (Bethesda, MD).
June 16, 2017
Scientist in the Spotlight
As a Science Communication Fellow at the Natural History Museum of Utah, Janet will demonstrate how animation can help scientists. NHMU, 2-4pm.
June 7-9, 2017
TED Senior Fellows Salon
Janet will participate in the first TED Senior Fellows Salon at TED HQ in NYC.
May 4, 2017
Election to ASCB Council
Janet is elected to ASCB Council and will serve a three-year term beginning January 1, 2018.
April 24-28, 2017
TED 2017
As a TED Senior Fellow, Janet will attend the 2017 TED conference in Vancouver, BC.
April 3-7, 2017
Invited Talks: Visualizing Molecular Biology
Sponsored by the American Corners program of the American Embassy in Portugal, Janet will give a series of four talks in Portugal: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (April 4), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (April 5), Universidade de Aveiro (April 6), and Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar in Porto (April 7).
March 19-22, 2017
West Coast Protein Crystallography Workshop
Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA. Janet will give a talk about molecular visualization and communication in a workshop on "Making Molecular Movies" co-led by Tom Goddard (UCSF Chimera).
February 21, 2017
Invited Talk: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Janet will be giving a talk as part of a Visualizing Biology workshop.
December 6, 2016
Invited Talk: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
December 3, 2016
Invited Talk: ASCB Undergraduate Speaker (ASCB Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA)
In this discussion targeted towards undergrads, Janet will talk about her career path and the rewards and challenges of being a molecular animator.
November 14, 2016
Invited Talk: Vanderbilt University
Janet will give a talk as the student invited departmental seminar speaker for the Department of Biological Sciences.
October 25, 2016
Invited Talk: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Janet will give a talk as part of the Biology Department's seminar series.
October 21, 2016
Invited Talk: Visualizing Atomic Nature: Symposium on the Aesthetics of Molecular Representation
Janet will give a talk at a symposium held at Rutgers University.
October 3, 2016
Entrepreneurial Faculty Scholars Annual Retreat
Janet will give a short talk as part of the 4th Annual Entrepreneurial Faculty Scholars retreat at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
September 19-23, 2016
NASA/NSF Ideas Lab: Origins of Life
Janet will participate in an intensive five-day workshop held in Cambridge, MD focusing on understanding how life on Earth originated.
September 14, 2016
Women in Science Panel
Janet will participate in a panel Q&A organized by the Organization for Women Leaders in Science (OWLS) at the University of Utah.
September 8, 2016
A New Way to Visualize Molecular Models with Molecular Flipbook
Yasinee Rotratsirikun interviews Janet for the Crastina blog.
September 5, 2016
Invited Talk: University of Helsinki
Janet will give a talk as part of the Viikki Monday Seminar series.
August 29, 2016
Interview with a Scientist: Janet Iwasa, Molecular Animator
Janet is interviewed for the NIGMS Biomedical Beat blog.
August 11, 2016
Invited Talk: University of Chicago
July 14, 2016
Talk for Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Janet will give a short talk to students participating in the University of Utah Summer Undergradate Research Program.
June 29, 2016
Invited Talk: University of Utah
Janet will discuss her career in this STEM Career Talk for Professional Development, sponsored by the University of Utah SACNAS chapter.
June 28, 2016
NOVA's Secret Life of Scientists
Janet is featured in the online video series by NOVA.
May 2-3, 2016
Visualization and Modeling of Cell Biology Workshop
Janet will chair and speak at a workshop with the Quantitative Cell Biology Network - held at the Salt Lake City Sheraton.
April 6, 2016
Invited Talk: University of California, Davis
March 10, 2016
Architecture of the Type IVa Pilus Machine
In collaboration with Grant Jensen's lab at Caltech, Janet developed animated molecular models show the mechanism of Myxococcus xanthus motility, described in this study. [Science magazine video] [PDF]
March 8, 2016
The Scientist as Illustrator
Janet's opinion article is published in a special issue on science communication in Trends in Immunology.
January 22, 2016
Invited Talk: Baylor College of Medicine
December 16-17, 2015
Invited Talk: Medicines of the Future
Janet will present her work at this Tech symposium held at Biogen (Cambridge, MA)
December 14, 2015
Book Launch Party, San Diego CA
Celebrating the release of Karp's Cell & Molecular Biology (8th edition) by Janet Iwasa and Wallace Marshall, hosted by Wiley & Sons.
November 17, 2015
Invited Talk: University of California, Berkeley
November 16, 2015
Invited Talk: University of California, San Francisco
November 9, 2015
Invited Talk: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
October 26, 2015
Faculty Research Seminar
Guest speaker for Biology 2870, University of Utah
October 22-24, 2015
Quantitative Biology of Cytoskeletal Mechanics Workshop
Janet will be attending the 4th workshop of the Quantitative Cell Biology Network - held in Chicago
October 22, 2015
Smashing Stereotypes: TED Profiles '12 Badass' Scientists
Janet is profiled in the University of Utah's Algorthims for Innovation blog.
October 19, 2015
Invited Talk: Iowa State University
Janet will be one of the keynote speakers at the Biological Structures & Systems Symposium
August 26 - 30 2015
TED Fellows Retreat
Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA
June 28 - July 1 2015
Invited Talk: New Biological Frontiers Illuminated by Molecular Sensors and Actuators
Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan
June 18 - 19, 2015
Structural Biology Related to HIV/AIDS 2015
Natcher Conference Center, NIH. Bethesda, MD.
April 29 - May 2, 2015
SupporTED Collaboratorium
Janet was chosen to participate in the TED Fellows SupporTED Collaboratorium in Birmingham, AL.
April 18, 2015
Invited Talk: F5 Festival
New York City
April 17, 2015
Invited Talk: University of Miami
April 13, 2015
ERDC Grant Awardee
Janet was awarded a grant to purchase a 3D printer to create tangible molecular models by the Educational Resource Development Council (ERDC).
April 10-12, 2015
Invited Talk: University of Toronto
Janet will be one of the keynote speakers at the 14th Chemical Biophysics Symposium (CBP).
April 9, 2015
RSCB PDB Education Corner
Janet presents the Science of HIV website in the Education Corner section of the RCSB PDB's spring 2015 newsletter.
April 1, 2015
Bringing Macromolecular Machinery to Life using 3D Animation
Janet's review article is published in Current Opinion in Structural Biology.
March 25-27, 2015
Invited Talk: VIZBI conference
Broad Institute, Boston, MA
March 16, 2015
TED Ed: Why It's So Hard to Cure HIV/AIDS
Janet worked together with TED Ed and animator Javier Saldeña to create a TED Ed lesson about HIV.
January 22, 2015
Cool Videos: HIV in Action
Science of HIV animations and illustrations are featured in the NIH Director's Blog.
January 20-21, 2015
Invited Talk: Science in 3D
2015 NIAID Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Festival. Bethesda, MD.
January 1, 2015
WIRED Science Graphic of the Week
Janet's illustration of the ribosome/Rqc2 complex, to accompany a Science paper from the Frost lab (University of Utah/UCSF)is selected as the WIRED Science graphic of the week.
December 12, 2014
Visualization Seminar
Scientific Computing & Imaging Institute (SCI), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
December 11, 2014
Vitae 2014
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
December 6-10, 2014
ASCB/IFCB Annual Meeting
Janet will be presenting a lightning talk and hosting a workshop on animation at the annual meeting for the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in Philadelphia. Please come and meet me at any of the following events:
Molecular Flipbook: A new 3D animation software for cell & molecular biologists Lightning talk on Sunday, December 7, during the "Envisioning Educational change in the Digital Age" minisymposium (starting at 4pm, Room 116).
Molecular Flipbook workshop on Monday, December 8th at 11am-12pm, Room 117. Bring your laptop!
November 17, 2014
Foreign Policy's Leading Global Thinkers of 2014
Janet is named one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014 by Foreign Policy magazine.
October 27, 2014
Educational Resource Development Council Presentation
Janet will present her work to members of the ERDC at the University of Utah.
October 22, 2014
Contemporary Animation Society Interview
Took part in an online interview with members of the Savannah College of Art & Design's Contemporary Animation Society.
October 21, 2014
Graduate & Advanced Lady Scientists (GALS) Seminar
FASB 303, 11am. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
October 9, 2014
The Pioneering Spirit at the University of Utah
Janet takes part in a commercial featuring U of U pioneers.
October 6-10, 2014
Animation Workshop
Janet led a 5-day 3d animation workshop for art conservators at the University of Evora (Evora, Portugal).
October 1, 2014
Crafting a Career in Molecular Animation
A Perspective essay by Janet about her career path, published in Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC).
August 15, 2014
Meet Janet Iwasa
An interview on Biomedical Beat, NIGMS news blog.
August 7, 2014
How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis
Janet's TED talk at TED2014 is now viewable online!
June 15-20, 2014
Invited Talk: Gordon Research Conference on Lysosomes and Endocytosis
Proctor Academy, Andover, New Hampshire.
April 25-30, 2014
ASBMB Annual Meeting
Janet will be hosting a workshop on animation, presenting a poster and a short talk at the annual meeting for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) in San Diego. Please come and meet me at any of the following events:
Molecular Animation poster on Sunday, April 27 at1:15pm, D366.
Careers in Scientific animation talk on Monday, April 28 at 4:10pm, during the session on Career Choices.
Molecular Flipbook workshop on Wednesday, April 29th at 12:30-1:30pm.
April 22, 2014
Biologists help create epic films on a micro scale
An article about Janet's work by Joao Medeiros in WIRED Magazine (UK).
April 1, 2014
Visualize disease on the microscopic level with Molecular Flipbook's 3D animations
An interview by Emerson Rosenthal for the Vice Creators Project.
March 17, 2014
Molecular Flipbook Beta 0.1 Launch
The Molecular Flipbook animation toolkit is officially launched during TED2014! Media links below.
Molecular Flipbook: A free, open source 3D animation toolkit designed for and by scientists
An interview with Even Orenstein from coolhunting.com
Tiny and beautiful worlds: Talking molecular animation with TED2014 Fellow Janet Iwasa
Janet is interviewed for the TED blog by Karen Eng
March 17-21, 2014
TED2014
Janet will give a brief talk as a TED2014 Fellow at the TED2014 conference.
February 22, 2014
Invited Talk: TEDxWellesley College
December 3, 2013
Animated movies bring new insights to science
Janet is interviewed for The Scope, the University of Utah Health Sciences Radio.
November 19, 2013
Janet Iwasa is chosen as a TED2014 Fellow [link]
September 27, 2013
The artistic side of science
Janet is featured in a poster at the STEM Education Career Fair (Dulles Town Center, VA).
September 19, 2013
Invited talk: Structural Biology Interest Group, National Institutes of Health
September 9, 2013
Invited talk: 7th Horizons Career Fair in Life Sciences, Max Planck Insitute (Göttingen)
July 25, 2013
Can scientific animations lead to new discoveries?
A blog post by Peta Owens-Liston in the University of Utah Health Sciences Algorithms for Innovation online report.
July 14-16, 2013
Workshop: The emerging intersection between the physical sciences and oncology
Attended a thinktank workshop at the Banbury Center at Cold Spring Harbor, sponsored by the USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center.
May 6, 2013
When art and science intertwine
An article by Julie Kiefer of Explore Utah Science about researchers at the University of Utah who work at the intersection of art and science.
March 18, 2013
Crossing animation with molecules creates a whole new field
A University of Utah Health Sciences blog post by Peta Owens-Liston describing Janet's animation work and planned collaborations.
March 1, 2013
Scientist uses 3-D animation to study cells, viruses
Janet Iwasa is interviewed by Ed Yeates from KSL TV about molecular animation and her new project on visualizing HIV.
February 21, 2013
Molecular animation presentation at The Leonardo Museum
Janet Iwasa gives a public presentation about molecular animation during a month-long exploration of animation at The Leonardo Museum.
January 1, 2013
Janet Iwasa joins the Biochemistry Department at the University of Utah
December 17, 2012
ASCB Working Group: From Histograms to Animations: Effective Visualizations Makes Complex Data Clear.
This interactive working group session at the 2012 ASCB Annual Meeting focused on how to create effective data visualizations using a variety of tools. Janet Iwasa (co-chair), Graham Johnson (co-chair) and Bang Wong presented.
December 15-19, 2012
ASCB² Art Gallery at the 2012 ASCB Annual Meeting, curated by Graham Johnson and Janet Iwasa
: Interview with Graham Johnson (UCSF), about the ASCB² Art Exhibit at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.
: President's Column written by Janet Iwasa and Graham Johnson about the art exhibit and working group in the October 2012 ASCB Newsletter.
June 2012
Fast Company: 100 Most Creative People
Janet Iwasa is listed in Fast Company Magazine's 100 Most Creative People in 2012.
January 11, 2012
Invited talk: Bauer Forum, Harvard University
January 9, 2012
Invited talk: Williams College
September 17, 2011
Janet Iwasa Makes 3-D Movies about Molecules
An interview with Beth Lebwohl of EarthSky.
September 14, 2011
Biomedical Illustration: From monsters to molecules
Lok C. Nature. 2011 Sep 15;477(7364):359-61.
Scientific animators are borrowing tools from Hollywood to breathe life into cells and molecules on screen.
[pdf] [pubmed]
September 2011
iBioMagazine: Animating Cell Biology
Janet Iwasa gives a video presentation on molecular animation for iBioMagazine.
April 17, 2011
Invited talk: EPFL (Lausanne)
April 13, 2011
Invited talk: Die Angewandte (Vienna)
March 28, 2011
Invited talk: Emory University
November 15, 2010
Molecular Animation: Where Cinema and Biology Meet
An article in the New York Times, by Erik Olsen, for which Janet Iwasa was interviewed.
June 19-23, 2010
Workshop: Visualizing Molecular & Cellular Processes with 3D Animation
Co-organizers Janet Iwasa and Filipe Santo Silva held an intensive five-day workshop at IPATIMUP (Porto, Portugal) to give participants hands-on training in 3D animation software. During the course, participants designed and completed a short scientific animation on a subject of their choosing.
May 24-28, 2010
NSF Ideas Lab: Innovations in Biological Imaging and Visualization
Participated in an intensive four-day workshop held by the NSF focusing on overcoming the challenges of the visual representation of complex biological images and data.
March 29, 2010
15th Annual Symposium on Biotechnology Education at the Museum of Science
Speakers Janet Iwasa (HMS), Gael McGill (HMS) and Bang Wong (MIT) described technologies used in modern scientific visualizations, such as 3-D animation software, that allow us to “see” what can’t be seen.
December 11, 2009
Invited talk: College de France (Paris)
December 11, 2009
Hollywood Gives Biologists a Helping Hand
A story in Nature News by Monya Baker covering the ASCB subgroup on 3D visualization (below).
December 9, 2009
ASCB Subgroup: Exploring Cell Biology at the Frontier of 3D VIsualization
Special interest subgroup session on visualization at the 2012 annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, organized by co-chairs and speakers Janet Iwasa and Drew Berry.
February 2009
ASCB Profile: Janet Iwasa
Janet Iwasa is interviewed for the ASCB Profile section in the monthly newsletter for the American Society for Cell Biology.
January 28, 2009
Visualizing Life's Origins
Janet Iwasa is a guest author in Science Magazine's Origins Blog.