Science Illustrations

I've been making art for as long as I've been making science. In college I minored in painting, but now I use digital illustrations and animations to translate my ideas into the visual world.

NYC public school mural

Nora painting

Almost finished mural

Students painting

Nora painting

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I designed, sketched, and led a team of students to paint a mural at the Manhattan Academy for Arts and Language in November 2018

Twitter outreach

This illustration was used for a twitter thread I posted in September 2023 explaining my research.

Journal Cover Art

I made this image in 2019 as potential cover art for a paper I published in the journal Cell, Host & Microbe.

Lab decoration

Decorated sign for the Marraffini Lab, February 2020

Teaching

To explain the molecular biology behind viral infections, I made graphics for the class that I co-taught at Yale University called Microbial Ecology and Evolution in Fall 2021.