Illustration
Please see below my portfolio of science illustrations. I’m available for freelance illustration, content writing and editing work. My blog about drug discovery and engineering biology is a good example of my content-writing ability. Example of published science writing are:
BIOTECH BLOGPOST
Blogpost with illustration on the Newcells Biotech website: Imaging Propels Our Kidney Assays to the Next Level (2023).
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY ESSAY
Review article introducing 16-18 year-olds and first year undergraduate students to the Principles of Synthetic Biology. Published by the Biochemical Society (Essays in Biochemistry, 2021).
REVIEW ARTICLE
Invited Review article, High content imaging for monitoring signalling dynamics in single cells, published in Journal of Molecular Endocrinology (2020).
Illustration to accompany the blog post Keeping the Blood Flowing about how the saliva of some venomous creatures has inspired the development of drugs that prevent or break down blood clots.
A vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) flies through H&E-stained blood vessel caves
The Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) in a nerve cell jungle
This poisonous bird carries a potent neurotoxin in its flesh and feathers. Made as a sticker incentive for a holiday pop-up shop.
The textile cone snail (Conus textile) injects disulphide-rich conotoxins to paralyse its prey
The textile cone snail has a highly patterned shell, and so into it I have worked disulphide bond structures. This illustration was made to accompany a blogpost Cone Snails and Disulphide Bonds addressing why venom peptides are so frequently disuphide-rich.
Made to accompany a review article about using modelling to gain new insights into dynamic hormone systems.
This is illustration came Runner-Up in the Wikimedia Foundation Heart of Knowledge competition (2019).
The Design, Build, Test, Learn cycle of mathematical modelling
Poster for the Brain Art competition for local school children, part of the Bristol Neuroscience Festival.
Poster for the Brain Art competition, RUN AS part of Bristol Neuroscience Festival
Illustration to accompany a blogpost for a Biotech company announcing a new assay to monitor the uptake of a drug into kidney cells. I collaged photographs of boiled sweets into the illustration to add more solidity to the molecules.