Associate Professor Timberley Roane was infected by the art bug in a graduate molecular biology class at the University of Arizona. During the class, the professor played a tape of music composed by assigning notes to the four nucleotide bases found in DNA. She was hooked.

The bug led Roane to submit two pieces to the University of Colorado Art in Science/Science in Art juried exposition. Judges chose 66 images for the online gallery. Thirty were printed and framed for a traveling show that opened at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Roane’s image “Invasion” made the final cut. Roane encourages her students to draw the concepts covered in class to better grasp what they can’t see. “By illustrating the processes of DNA replication, gene expression and chemical breakdown, students gain an appreciation of the beauty and complexities of microorganisms.”

See the exhibit at http://artsci.uchscedu.

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