I’ve been really interested in the operation of the immune system for a while now, I was thinking about creating some sort of representation of one of the Major Histocompatability Complex (MHC) proteins on macrophages in the body.
Protein artists
- 2010 Protein Portraits in the news
- Alissa Eckert
- Bathsheba Grossman
- Byron Rubin
- David Goodsell
- Drew Berry
- Gael McGill
- Irving Geis
- Jane Richardson
- Janet Iwasa
- Jenny Langley
- Julian Voss-Andreae
- Mara Haseltine
- Maria Winners infectious art
- Mike Tyka
- Protein art by May_k
- Steve Miller
- Wunderkammer crochet
Protein science
- AlphaFold
- AlphaFold: How to predict structures
- AlphaFold: Tutorial
- David Goodsell's Molecule of the Month
- Domain classification: CATH
- Domain classification: SCOP
- Folding at home
- Foldit
- Jane Richardson modeling
- Perkins: History of Molecular Representation Part 2
- Protein Spotlight (SIB)
- RCSB PDB: Search the protein databank
Studio tricks and materials
Viral artistry
- 2015 Year of the Phage
- Ann Kiernan for The Washington Post
- Bad news wrapped in protein
- Corona virus mandala
- Goodsell CoV-2
- Illustration by Nicholas Konrad
- SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein- 2D illustration
- SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein-Macarroni models
- SARS-CoV-2 spike protein models, space filling, by David Veesler
- Sean McSorley, Virosphere illustration
- The Spiky Blob Seen Around the World
Weekly topics
The MHC is quite a complex. The first art-related thought that enters my mind is “soft”. As in soft like a pillow. Squishy, rubbery. The lymphocyte is like a bean bag, and the MHC is similarly malleable. I’m looking up videos of rolling lymphocytes … Maybe those will be a source of inspiration…