Drawings for London Genetics Network Conference

Had a head-scratching day last week, figuring out what to draw for a bunch of very clever people - at a conference of geneticists. Wow, this really is another world! 

In the future all our genomes will be mapped at birth, potential future illnesses predicted, and hopefully disaster averted. Ah, if only life were that simple :)

Great to finally meet (in-person!) Angelica Ronald and Karoline Kuchenbaecker who co-hosted the LGN, as the last 2 years have been virtual events.

Logo for Genetics study in Pakistan

I was asked by a joint group of geneticists based in UCL London and psychiatrists from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan to come up with a logo  for their ongoing study of the influence of genetics on the local population's mental health.

This final logo design incorporates the flag of Pakistan, the role of psychology and genetics and its roots in studying the local population. 

In Peshawar they will have had a large influx of people fleeing war and extreme poverty, as it's very close to the afghan border.

There were numerous iterations before we came to an agreement on the final image!

Thanks to Karoline Kuchenbaecker and Maria Valkovskaya from University College London for liaising with the team in Pakistan - we got there in the end! 

Logo for Genetics Scientists, UCL

Before Christmas I was asked to create a logo to represent a science group called: Diversity in Genetics. 

The logo is heavily influenced by the charts that are produced to display the results of genetic studies, they create quite a pretty 'pointilliste' pattern of dotted colours. I tried to echo this in the final design:

London Genetics Network Logo and drawings

These images are to launch the first gathering of the London Genetics Network on the 4th December 2020 - this Friday!

https://genetics.org.uk/events/london-genetics-network/ 

The conference is unusual in our age of international collaboration, because it's encouraging a more local approach. One of the main aims of the online meeting is for early career researchers to be encouraged to make more connections with more senior scientists, and nurture a local ecosystem of genetics research.

With thanks to Dr Angelica Ronald (Birkbeck) for her inspiration and guidance, as my background is non-scientific.