MBI Graduate program: ME:120.726

Molecular & Cellular Visualization

Offered: Third/Fourth Quarter, First Year
Instructors: Corinne Sandone, Professor, Course Director
Lydia Gregg, MA, CMI, Associate Professor
Fabian de Kok Mercado, MA, CMI, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Graham Johnson, MA, CMI, PhD, (Faculty Fellow – UCSF), visiting faculty
Veronica Falconieri, MA, CMI, guest lecturer
Credits:  3 credits

summary

This course will provide an in-depth review of structural and cell biology for the medical illustrator, including methods for background research and strategies for visually depicting molecular and cellular data. The course will introduce size relationships and scientific data that must be considered when illustrating on molecular and cellular scales.

Course Description

Objectives

• Provide an in-depth overview of structural and cell biology topics for the medical illustrator, including background research and visualization methods.
• Cover strategies for addressing relative scale and integrating scientific data when visualizing molecular and cellular environments.

Assignments

Students will develop their skills through lectures, demonstrations, tutorials and class exercises, including:
1. Lecture assignments from Scientific Foundations of Medicine Macromolecules and Cell Physiology courses
2. Full color illustration assignment
3. Molecular visualization lab assignments

Resources

  • Class lectures and demonstrations
  • Online cellular and molecular databanks
  • Print and digital reference books
  • Macintosh computer hardware, stylus-based input devices, and printers
  • Software and plugins with associated tutorials

Student Evaluations

  • An illustration assignment
  • In-class exercises and discussion participation
  • Final exam

Schedule

Refer to 1st year calendars and syllabi.

Student Artwork

Gallery of Molecular Illustration

Herceptin and HER2 Docking
Herceptin and HER2 Docking
Herceptin and HER2 Docking
Base excision repair enzymes molecular visualization, DNA, AAG hOGG AlkA UNG
An illustration depicting a 40S ribosomal subunit being degraded after being bound by the kinase RIOK3.
An illustration depicting a 40S ribosomal subunit being degraded after being bound by the kinase RIOK3.
Base excision repair enzymes molecular visualization, DNA, AAG hOGG AlkA UNG
An illustration depicting a 40S ribosomal subunit being degraded after being bound by the kinase RIOK3.
An illustration depicting a 40S ribosomal subunit being degraded after being bound by the kinase RIOK3.

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