Too Creative for Science?
Speaker:
Ahna Skop
12 Sep 2016
7:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Ahna Skop is geneticist, artist and a winner of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. She is also nationally known for using art to inform her scientific work on the mechanisms of cell division (cytokinesis) to understand human diseases, such as cancer and age-related disorders. Skop is an associate professor in genetics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her science and art have been featured by Apple and Science, and her work can be seen in the main entrance of the Genetics/Biotechnology Center building on the UW-Madison campus. For the past fifteen years she has organized an annual Worm Art Show for the International C. elegans Meeting.
A child of artists and of Cherokee Nation descent, Ahna Skop has worked extensively with Native communities and serves on the National Board of Directors for the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native American Scientists (SACNAS).
To learn more about her research and art, check out her website: [url=http://skoplab.weebly.com/science-art.html]http://skoplab.weebly.com/science-art.html[/url]