PDBe Project exhibition

Over July there are two exhibitions at the Michaelhouse Café, featuring work from local schools.

It is entitled "Artworks inspired by life's building blocks", and is an exhibition featuring cutting edge scientific data communicated by engaging art. The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe), The Arts Society CANTAB and The Arts Society GRANTA are working with local school art departments to create artworks inspired by life’s building blocks. PDBe maintains a worldwide free database containing 140,000 3D shapes of biological molecules important for health research. The molecules are too small to see even with a normal microscope, and are very complex. In this project, PDBe scientists help students explore the database (PDBe.org) and ways of depicting molecules, using structure as inspiration for the artworks. The outcomes of this project are featured in an annual art k herexhibition. There is a very good short video about the PDBe project on YouTube. Click here to see it.

The 2018 Young Arts PDBe Project exhibition is being held at Michaelhouse Café, Trinity Street, Cambridge until 28th July. It is open from 8.00 to 5.00 daily excluding Sundays.