Drew Berry - The Molecular Machines that Create Your Flesh & Blood

A profound technological revolution is underway in bio-medical science, accelerating development of new therapies and treatments for the diseases that afflict us and also transforming how we perceive ourselves and the nature of our living bodies. Coupled to the accelerating pace of scientific discovery is an ever expanding need to explain to the public and develop appreciation of our new biomedical capabilities, to prepare the public for the tsunami of new knowledge and medicines that will impact patients, our families and community. Drew Berry presents the latest visualisation experiments in creating cinematic movies and real-time interactive 3D molecular worlds, that reveal the current state of the art scientific discovery, focusing on the molecular engines that covert the food you eat into the chemical energy that powers your cells and tissues. Leveraging the incredible power of game GPU technology, vast molecular landscapes can be generated for 3D 360 degree cinema for museum and science centre dome theatres, interactive exploration in VR, and Augmented Reality education via student mobile phones. Also see Drew's talk at a previous Science, Technology & the Future conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1qfim5awuE Bio: Dr Drew Berry is a biomedical animator who creates beautiful, accurate visualisations of the dramatic cellular and molecular action that is going on inside our bodies. He began his career as a cell biologist and is fluent navigating technical reports, research data and models from scientific journals. As an artist, he works as a translator, transforming abstract and complicated scientific concepts into vivid and meaningful visual journeys. Since 1995 he has been a biomedical animator at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia. His animations have exhibited at venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Royal Institute of Great Britain and the University of Geneva. In 2010, he received a MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant”. Recognition and awards • Doctorate of Technology (hc), Linköping University Sweden, 2016 • MacArthur Fellowship, USA 2010 • New York Times “If there is a Steven Spielberg of molecular animation, it is probably Drew Berry” 2010 • The New Yorker “[Drew Berry’s] animations are astonishingly beautiful” 2008 • American Scientist “The admirers of Drew Berry, at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Australia, talk about him the way Cellini talked about Michelangelo” 2009 • Nature Niche Prize, UK 2008 • Emmy “DNA” Windfall Films, UK 2005 • BAFTA “DNA Interactive” RGB Co, UK 2004 Animation http://www.wehi.tv TED http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_berry_animations_of_unseeable_biology Architectural projection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9AA5x-qhm8 Björk video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa1A0pPc-ik Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Berry #MedicalAnimation #WEHI #MolecularAnimation Many thanks for watching! Consider supporting SciFuture by: a) Subscribing to the SciFuture YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheRationalFuture b) Donating - Bitcoin: 1BxusYmpynJsH4i8681aBuw9ZTxbKoUi22 - Ethereum: 0xd46a6e88c4fe179d04464caf42626d0c9cab1c6b - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scifuture c) Sharing the media SciFuture creates: http://scifuture.org Kind regards, Adam Ford - Science, Technology & the Future