Opening an Exhibition of Science Comic Strips at Blokhinka
How to explain basic research in a trustworthy and scientifically accurate way using a comic strip of five pictures?
On Friday, 17 June, the exhibition “Science in Comic Strips: an Easy Way to Explain Complicated Things” will be opened at the JINR Universal Library. The organizers will be talking about an art experiment of our Laboratory on educational visualization of its investigations.
Five comic strips refer to studies performed by the DLNP Sector of Molecular Genetics of the Cell under the guidance of Elena Kravchenko, Candidate of Biology.
This exhibition is a joint project of DLNP and the Komikadze group.
Komikadze is a collaborative association of scriptwriters, artists, illustrators and science educators. In 2018, the book “For Certain” was published, Russia’s first comic strip book about current scientific research with famous scientists as characters. Since then, the group communicates science and promotes brands using comic strips, pictures and illustrations. Skoltech, MSU, HSE, “Russia’s movement of schoolchildren”, Laba.Media, Bookmate and others are among the Komikadze partners.
At the opening ceremony:
• Elena Dubovik, head of the DLNP Group of Scientific Communication, will be talking about science comic strips ― what they are and how they help illustrate complicated but really breathtaking studies of DLNP biologists.
• Mikhail Zarubin, junior researcher of the Sector of Molecular Genetics of the Cell, will be talking about his trip to the Baksan Neutrino Observatory of INR of RAS and about sampling in remote unused parts of the tunnel.
• Kirill Tarasov, a bioinformatician of the Sector of Molecular Genetics of the Cell, will be talking about reconstruction of individual genomes from Baksan samples and also about discovery of new bacterium species.
• Lina Aleksyunaite, a scriptwriter of the Komikadze group, will be talking about the way a comic strip script comes to life and about the cooperation with scientists…
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