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Phylogenetic mobile of sequenced mammals

Phylogenetic trees show the evolutionary relationships between animals. This is a scientifically accurate scale model of a phylogenetic tree with the thirty mammals whose genomes have been sequenced. The full size mobile, measuring about 20 feet across, hangs in the lobby of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA.

Announcements

  • 30 August 2010 - Nature Methods' Points of View for September published
  • 1 August 2010 - Inaugural monthly column in Nature Methods published
  • 31 July 2010 - Elected to Board of Governors for the Association of Medical Illustrators
  • 29 July 2010 - Presentation at the Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Meeting in Portland OR.
  • 22 July 2010 - Guest speaking with Miriah Meyer for Engaging Health Workshop at the MIT Media Lab
  • 10 June 2010 - Presenting with Miriah Meyer at EuroVis Symposium on Visualization, Bordeaux France.
  • 7 June 2010 - Presentation with Miriah Meyer for Interfaces Forum at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge UK.
  • 13 May 2010 - Presentation for ACM IEEE Computer Society Joint Seminar
  • 11 May 2010 - Joining Leila Kinney, Lisa Monrose, Todd Bartel, and Suelin Chen for art/science panel at Brandeis University.
  • 14-15 April 2010 - Participating in the University of Colorado Denver International Think Tank on Visualization.
  • 7 April 2010 - Guest lecture at Harvard University for cs171: Visualization.
  • 29 March 2010 - With Janet Iwasa and Gael McGill, giving seminar at 15th Annual Symposium on Biotechnology Education.
  • 4 March 2010 - Keynote for Visualizing Biological Data workshop.
  • 4 March 2010 - Giving EMBO Science & Society Lecture, Heidelberg Germany
  • 1 March 2010 - Co-author commentary for Nature Methods on visualizing biological data.
  • 10 August 2009 - Interview for Chemical & Engineering News' "Where Art Meets Science."
  • 15 April 2009 - Guest lecture at Harvard University for cs171: Visualization.
  • 31 July 2008 - Guest lecture at Tufts University in comp155.
  • 14 April 2008 - Guest lecture at Harvard University for cs171: Visualization
  • 14 July 2007 - Work featured in The Online Learning Idea Book