VIZBIplus

Timeline

2015	14 December	Christopher Hammang together with Monash University premiered the animation: The FODMAP Grand Tour Down Under: IBS relief.
	20 July	Second article in The Conversation: Art and science combine to reveal the inner workings of our DNA
	June	Cover image for the journal Nature Biotechnology Vol 33 No 6 (Nature Publishing Group, New York, USA).
	April	Cover image for the journal Nature Biotechnology Vol 33 No 4 (Nature Publishing Group, New York, USA).
	30 March	Invited talk on 'Biomedical animation with Blender', to prominent structural biologists and visualisation experts (University of California San Francisco, USA).
	26 March	Organized the ‘Art & Biology’ evening as part of the VIZBI 2015 (Cambridge, MA, USA).
	25 March	Presented poster Alzheimer's Enigma: Putting the Pieces Together at VIZBI 2015 (Cambridge, MA, USA).
	25 March	Successfully awarded 2nd round of funding ($100,000) from CSIRO.
	13 February	One VizbiPlus animation was featured as part of an invited talk at the Computational and Simulation Sciences and eResearch, Annual Conference 2015 (Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne).
	4 February	VizbiPlus Premiere 2015 (CSIRO Discovery Centre, Canberra) - the event was streamed live via Google Hangout and is available on YouTube. Photos from the event are also available on Flickr. Download the 2015 VizbiPlus Animation Premiere brochure
	4 February	A VizbiPlus event was held for members of the national government's Inspiring Australia team (Industry House, Canberra).
	January	VizbiPlus painting completed for Pearcey cluster at Canberra data centre
2014	26 November	Invited keynote talk on 'Visualising Biological Systems for Research and Outreach' at meeting titled 'Biological Data Visualization: where science meets arts' (Ghent, Belgium)
	November	Two VizbiPlus animations presented at invited talks in Munich and Stuttgart (Germany).
	7 November	Two VizbiPlus animations placed within the top ten for National Science Foundation 'Vizzies' 2014
	5 November	Talk on 'Alzheimers murder mystery' at the Proteostasis Symposium 2014 (University of Wollongong, Wollongong).
	28 October	Two VizbiPlus animations presented at invited talk at Charles Perkins Centre (University of Sydney, Sydney).
	16 September	Two VizbiPlus animations shown as part of an invited plenary talk to the International Conference on Systems Biology (Convention Centre, Melbourne).
	6 September – 8 November	Two videos featured in the “Body Image” exhibition at the UNSW Art/Design Galleries
	30 May	Unlocking the Protein Data Bank: A Masterclass with David Goodsell (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney)
	29 May	A second key event from the VizbiPlus team was On Making Science Beautiful (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney), co-organized with Vivid Ideas as one their Signature Events. This featured three three new VizbiPlus animations, a talk from keynote speaker David Goodsell, and the unveiling of the inaugral VizbiPlus Challenge finalists.
	May	Three VizbiPlus animations shown on the Big Screen at Federation Square (Melbourne).
	17 April	Article in The Conversation: Animating life: bringing science to the YouTube generation
	March	Two VizbiPlus animations presented as part of talks at the Computational and Simulation Sciences and eResearch, Annual Conference 2014 (Convention Centre, Melbourne).
	6 March	Presented poster The Hungry Microbiome — colour study at VIZBI 2014 (Heidelberg, Germany).
2013	16 September	One VizbiPlus animation shown as part of a talk (available on YouTube) for the Big Data Crossover Evening event (Danish Design Center, Copenhagen, Denmark).
	2 September	One VizbiPlus animation shown as part of an invited plenary talk to the International Conference on Systems Biology (Tivoli Conference Center, Copenhagen, Denmark).
	15 August	VizbiPlus animations highlighted in Sydney University "Sydney Ideas" seminar series.
	30 June	The inaugural public event from the VizbiPlus team was Connect with Science (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney), co-organized with Vivid Ideas as one their Signature Events. This featured a keynote talk from Graham Johnson (UCSF, USA), and an announcement of the VizbiPlus project.
	21 March	Presented poster The Hungry Microbiome at VIZBI 2013 (Cambridge, MA, USA) - this poster won the Autodesk Award for Best Art & Biology submission, decided by popular vote.
	29 January	VizbiPlus kick-off meeting (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne).
2012	1 May	Successfully awarded 1st round of funding ($350,000) from the Inspiring Australia team of the Australian government. This funding was matched with in-kind contributions from the participating institutions for a total budget of $1.2 million.
	29 February	Submitted initial proposal for VizbiPlus funding.

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