Check out the inspiration for "Genes & Jazz": Drew Barry's animation of DNA coiling within a chromosome
Too often, I read about a great NYC event that’s already happened. This time it was “Genes & Jazz,” a lecture at the Guggenheim Museum on November 16. The featured speaker was president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (and Obama’s likely pick for Science Advisor) Harold Varmus. He talked about basic biology and evolution while his son, Jacob Varmus, led an accompanying jazz quintet.
“We both felt that there were unexplored similarities between jazz and science,” Jacob said to the New Yorker’s Paul Goldberger. “They both involve investigating patterns and structures and how things work. Science and jazz are also both fringe communities in this country, and so we figured we could tell a parallel story.”
The duo decided to use music to explain the double helix and the rest of a cell’s basic structure. But, like a typical father and son, they disagreed on just how to do that. Happily, Drew Barry’s fantastic computer animations of cell biology came to the rescue. Go read the whole story.
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