Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to Canadian 🇨🇦 geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! In my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> Uchida is shown surrounded by chromosones, with anomalies (shown with pink arrows) due to radiation exposure, based on one of her research papers. A strand of DNA is hidden in the image (as her watchband).<br><br>Uchida didn’t set out to be a scientist. She was studying English literature at UBC, before she was interned 🧵1/n<br><br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genetics</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/cytology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cytology</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNA</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histstm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histstm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chromosomes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chromosomes</span></a></p>