The First Virs Graphic Novel





I illustrated a page in the science fiction graphic novel, The First VIRS. It makes cutting-edge neuroscience topics more accessible to a diverse audience through the medium of a science fiction graphic novel.
The page I created illustrates how neuroscience research can be conducted within less-controlled settings, such as a museum setting, instead of only within a laboratory.


Illustration, Design
2019

Research



Research Notes for Museum as Lab Page
Sketch exploring the spectrum of neuroscience research


The above are research and sketches exploring the concept of the museum used as a laboratory. The museum or similar environments can be a good average between the methodology of field neuroscience and laboratory neuroscience. The Museum as a Lab approach combines the controlled experiment approach of the laboratory with aspects of ethological observations of field neuroscience.




Melissa Jedrysiak — Chicago, IL