This artwork was commissioned for my colleague and good friend, Melody Dobrinin, as a 30th birthday gift. The artwork is a tribute to Melody starting her PhD journey, in which she is exploring the gut microbiome. During her PhD, she hopes to identify and characterise leads for live biotherapeutics, which she hopes will be one day implemented as a treatment for inflammatory bowel diseases.
Melody is also very talented at science communication, and you can check out her super fun and entertaining science-related youtube videos here!