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Janet Iwasa
Janet Iwasa is an American data visualization expert and associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah.
In 1978, Janet Iwasa was born to parents Mikeko and Kuni Iwasa in Bloomington, Indiana. She was the youngest of three children. Following her father joining the National Institutes of Health, she moved, with her family, to Maryland. She later went on to participate in an internship at the Institute for Genomic Research.
In 1999, she graduated with great honor from Williams College with bachelor's degrees in Biology and Asian Studies. In her junior year at Williams, she worked alongside Professor Robert Savage, studying the formation of segmented patterns in leeches on a cellular level. In 2006, Iwasa obtained a PhD in cell biology at the University of California in San Francisco. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the topic of actin networks.
After watching a molecular animation by Graham Johnson, she began to pursue 3D animation. She began taking animation classes at San Francisco State University. After graduation, she studied animation at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood, California; she was the only woman in her class. She applied her skills in animation to biology, using 3D animation as a means to visualize cellular functions and interactions.
In 2006, Iwasa began working as a postdoctoral fellow under Jack Szostak with Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2007, Iwasa worked as a teaching assistant at Harvard Medical School, in the "Visualizing Molecular Processes with Maya" course. She also worked with MASSIVE, adapting the visual effects software to depict processes of nucleation elongation.
In 2008, Iwasa created illustrations and animations for a multimedia exhibit for the Boston Museum of Science titled Exploring Life's Origins.
In 2008, she became a lecturer in Molecular Visualization for the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. Her work with Joan Brugge and Michael Overholtzer furthered her understanding of a newly discovered cellular process called endosis. Iwasa worked alongside researchers at the university to investigate the process.
While working with Tomas Kirchausen, she created an animation on clathrin-mediated endocytosis, researching how clathrin triskelions operated and assembled on the inner surface of the plasma membrane to invaginate an extracellular particle.
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Janet Iwasa
Janet Iwasa is an American data visualization expert and associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah.
In 1978, Janet Iwasa was born to parents Mikeko and Kuni Iwasa in Bloomington, Indiana. She was the youngest of three children. Following her father joining the National Institutes of Health, she moved, with her family, to Maryland. She later went on to participate in an internship at the Institute for Genomic Research.
In 1999, she graduated with great honor from Williams College with bachelor's degrees in Biology and Asian Studies. In her junior year at Williams, she worked alongside Professor Robert Savage, studying the formation of segmented patterns in leeches on a cellular level. In 2006, Iwasa obtained a PhD in cell biology at the University of California in San Francisco. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the topic of actin networks.
After watching a molecular animation by Graham Johnson, she began to pursue 3D animation. She began taking animation classes at San Francisco State University. After graduation, she studied animation at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood, California; she was the only woman in her class. She applied her skills in animation to biology, using 3D animation as a means to visualize cellular functions and interactions.
In 2006, Iwasa began working as a postdoctoral fellow under Jack Szostak with Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2007, Iwasa worked as a teaching assistant at Harvard Medical School, in the "Visualizing Molecular Processes with Maya" course. She also worked with MASSIVE, adapting the visual effects software to depict processes of nucleation elongation.
In 2008, Iwasa created illustrations and animations for a multimedia exhibit for the Boston Museum of Science titled Exploring Life's Origins.
In 2008, she became a lecturer in Molecular Visualization for the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. Her work with Joan Brugge and Michael Overholtzer furthered her understanding of a newly discovered cellular process called endosis. Iwasa worked alongside researchers at the university to investigate the process.
While working with Tomas Kirchausen, she created an animation on clathrin-mediated endocytosis, researching how clathrin triskelions operated and assembled on the inner surface of the plasma membrane to invaginate an extracellular particle.