Congratulations to alumnus Fabian de Kok-Mercado and alumna / Assistant Professor Jennifer Fairman on their 2016 National Science Foundation Visualization Challenge wins!
Fabian and his teammates at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute won the Experts’ Choice and the People’s Choice awards in the Video category for their work on Coral bleaching: A breakdown of symbiosis. “The animation details how rising ocean temperatures can prompt coral to eject the algae — a process known as coral bleaching. Without their symbiotic partners, bleached coral slowly die.”
Jennifer illustrated the work of Johns Hopkins researcher Dr. Jie Xiao and her team on “the arrangement of proteins, including one called FtsZ, at the site where E. coli bacterium divides. Jennifer’s illustration, The FtsZ ring: a multilayered protein network, won the People’s Choice award in the Illustration category.