Often, knowledge can stay within industry and academic silos, yet so much innovation can happen when we allow for the exchange of ideas. A challenge in translating synthetic biology is that findings might look clear as day to a scientist but unfathomable to non-scientists. This is where Biocreatives - people working at the intersection of biology and creative disciplines - come into play. 

Join us for a conversation featuring scientific artists Danielle Kunkel, Dr. Matteo Farinella and Dr. Jennifer Willet!

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube!

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

Danielle Kunkel

Danielle Kunkel is an artist who believes in using art and design as a way to visualize and simplify complicated topics. Danielle has worked at Gingko Bioworks as a senior creative scientist where she helped the Synbio company elevate their marketing materials through storytelling and design to help make the concept of engineering biology easier to understand. 

Matteo Farinella

Matteo Farinella is a science-trained illustrator and animator. He creates comics and illustrations to make science accessible to a wider audience. He is the author of Neurocomic (Nobrow 2013) a scientific graphic novel published with the support of the Wellcome Trust, and he has collaborated with universities and educational institutions to visualize academic research. 

Jennifer Willet 

Jennifer Willet is an artist, a Canada Research Chair in Art, Science, and Ecology, a Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor and the Director of INCUBATOR Art Lab, founded in 2009.  She is a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists in the Royal Society of Canada.  Willet is a leader in the Canadian art/science community and works internationally as an artist and curator in the field.  In 2018, Willet opened a new state-of-the-art bioart laboratory, and in 2020 a storefront bioart studio and community engagement centre in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. www.incubatorartlab.com @incubatorartlab @jenniferwilletbioart