During the 4th Annual Meeting of the 4DCellFate project (from the Di Croce lab), we will have an exclusive exhibit of etches based partly on images of cells from the project in the conference room. The etches are the work of Ana Cid, a Barcelona-based Spanish artist, who has recently been greatly inspired by images produced by biological research—images that we as scientists view mainly as a means-to-an-end for obtaining our results. It’s striking however how easy it is to appreciate the aesthetic beauty of functional images once they have been re-interpreted (see image on the front page).

Ana will be continuing her exhibit next week at the PRBB, with more elaborated scientific explanations of each image. Her art is also for sale (with international shipping available); see also her website www.acid-factory.com.

Of note are also the supporting easels used to display the etches. These are on loan from the Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona, and several of them are quite old (150+ years).