The Eyes Have It

Mad Andrew presented a poster and shares the experience in this LiveJournal entry. “There was TEXT EVERYWHERE. Period. Around the plots. In the plots. Under the plots. Not a square inch of the posters were bare. ARG!” Although it sounds like the event he was presenting at wasn’t related to the health sciences, his comments are worth a read no matter what your field of study is. For what it’s worth, I usually recommend that presenters refrain from laminating their poster unless it’s going to several conferences. It makes the poster more difficult to transport and nine out of ten posters end up in a hotel room trash can. If your heart is really set on lamination, I strongly suggest specifying a matte finish so glare from the lights in the room don’t interfere with the poster’s readability.

An award winning illustration by San Fran’s Watermark Design, Inc. [via Medpundit]

“This website represents over 25 years of experience capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research. A stock video library provides producers with a range of subjects, and includes both live recording and computer animation. A variety of immune cells, bacteria, parasites, and aquatic organisms are available for licensing for educational, broadcast, and commercial use.”

The unfailingly amazing Giornale Nuovo has done it again by pointing to the University of Iowa�s online exhibition of Paolo Mascagni’s Anatomia Universa. The “Zoomify” feature helps viewers see the fine detail each plate contains.

The university’s John Martin Rare Book Room collects “original works representing classic contributions to the history of the health sciences from the 15th through 20th Centuries.” Other online exhibits from the collection currently include Pietro Da Cortona’s Tabulae anatomicae and Johann Remmelin’s Catoptrum Microscopicum

Featured in a UC Berkeley Library exhibit:

“San Francisco artist Larry Gonick and UC Davis microbiologist Mark Wheelis use their artistic abilitiy and scientific knowledge to present a humorous look at genetics for a lay audience. Gonick has generously loaned The Bancroft Library the original art work for The Cartoon Guide to Genetics (1991).

Presented here are sections entitled “The Spiral Staircase” and “Genetic Engineering,” specifically referencing the work of Watson and Crick on the DNA double helix, and Cohen and Boyer on recombinant DNA.“