Learn how to correctly depict AlphaFolds in proteins with medical illustrator, Veronica Falconieri Hays
Being able to depict protein folds in an accurate way is one of the many knowledge points that comes with being a medical illustrator. Seasoned medical illustrator, Veronica Falconieri Hays, shares a resource that you can add to your toolkit to help you depict protein Alpha folds correctly in her most recent article.
In her article, Veronica gives a great introduction to what AlphaFolds are, shares online tools and how to use them, links its use with the Protein Data Bank (PDB), and also covers how medical illustrators use AlphaFolds in their work.
About Veronica
Veronica Falconieri Hays is a Certified Medical Illustrator based in the Washington, DC area specializing in medical, molecular, cellular, and biological visualization, including both still media and animation.
Prior to founding Falconieri Visuals, Veronica earned her Master of Arts in Medical and Biological Illustration from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, where she studied medical subjects such as anatomy alongside medical students, as well as completing coursework in illustration and animation.
After graduating, Veronica worked within a cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) lab at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. She collaborated extensively with researchers as they discovered structures of biological molecules, and is a published author in several journals including Science and Cell.
As a Certified Medical Illustrator, Veronica illustrates and animates all things medical including cell and molecular biology, pharmaceutical mechanism of action, biotech, physiology, neuroscience, anatomy, surgery, pathology, and biotechnology. Her research experience provides exceptional knowledge of protein structure and understanding of complex molecular subject matter.
