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Heather
Barnett is a visual artist who has worked collaboratively with
scientists over the past eight years, in areas of medicine, botany and
geology. Her work incorporates photography, film, digital media, and installation,
often actively in tandem with scientific processes. Her working methods
are highly responsive to her environment, reflecting observations and
reactions to working in a scientific context.
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Dr
Robert Whittle is a geneticist and is also examining the relationship
between genome content and developmental mechanism in insects, and how
emergent properties (for example, spatial patterning) can be dissected
from the ‘bottom up’ by genetic means. He is also the nominated
manager for this Fellowship bid, and has curated a ‘science and
art’ exhibition that was part of a UK scientific meeting in 2002.
Link to his science/art
website.
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Dr
Dek Woolfson heads a team interested in the molecular biology
of protein design, particularly the structure of an ubiquitous group called
‘coiled coil’ proteins. He is also currently pursuing the
potential applications for nanotechnology of nanofibres, by examining
the behaviour of such fibres, which assemble as polymers in vitro at room
temperature from component small polypetides.
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Dr
Dannie Osorio, a vision neuroscientist, is curious as to how
animals see, adapt and respond to the world, and has a particular interest
in the significance of colour and colour vision to animals. With his post-doctoral
worker Dr Adam Shohet, he is looking at the
scope and complexity of surface patterns that cuttlefish can display on
their body in rapid response to environmental cues. These may be ‘expressions’
of concealment or act as communication signals.
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Dr
Lindell Bromham is an evolutionary biologist who is working
with molecular data from genome DNA sequence to reconstruct the likely
genetic changes that have underpinned evolutionary changes in patterns
and processes operating when animals develop. She studies the basis of
the evolutionary transformations in body form that occurred when organisms
underwent profound changes in organisation and "evolvability"
during the Cambrian period.
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Dr
Roger Phillips, a developmental geneticist, works on the genetic and molecular
basis of developmental processes in the fruitfly, focusing on the emergence
of spatial patterns at the supra-cellular level. He manages the Sussex
Centre for Advanced Microscopy, specialising in confocal laser microscopy
and fluorescence imaging technology.
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Additional
collaboration extended to Alice Eldridge and Phillip
Minns (musicians and sound artists), who worked with Heather
on the sound installation Signal from the Noise and wrote sound
tracks in
response to Three Short FIlms about... Relations / Mutations / Transformations.
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