About the event
The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) is hosting an online art exhibition to showcase artwork created as part of the 2024 PDB Art project. This hybrid event will take place on Monday, 30th September 2024, marking the official opening of the 2024 PDB Art exhibition. The event will feature an overview of the artworks produced during this year's project, along with talks by two distinguished artists: Veronica Falconieri, a certified medical illustrator specialising in medical, molecular, cellular, and biological visualisation (find her on X at ), and Lucy Walker, known for her pointillism-inspired art using skeletal molecular structures (follow her on X at ).
We are thrilled to welcome you to the EBI campus in Hinxton for this year's hybrid exhibition at the Kendrew Lecture Theatre, South Building. Join us in person at 3:00 PM BST on 30th September 2024!
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Event programme
- Introduction to this year's PDB Art project
- A guided tour of this year's virtual exhibition
- Talk from Veronica Falconieri
- Talk from Lucy Walker
- Q&A session with Veronica, Lucy and PDBe team
- Final remarks and close
About the project
PDBe are working with school art departments around the world to create artworks inspired by the molecules of life.
PDBe maintains a free, worldwide database containing over 220,000 3D shapes of biological molecules important for scientific and medical research. The molecules are too small to see even with a normal microscope, and yet can form incredibly complex structures.
In this project, PDBe scientists help students explore the PDB database and different methods of depicting these molecules. The students, with support of their teachers, then use these structures as inspiration for the creation of artworks, many of which will be on display at the exhibition.
