BIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION
Merchandise design for the McGill University’s Biology Graduate Student Association
Coming up with a design that represents biologists was super challenging because Biology comprises such diverse research topics. The Department of Biology at McGill is roughly divided into three sub-groups: (1) Conservation, Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, (2) Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and (3) Neurobiology and Behaviour. This design is inspired by phylogenetic trees used in evolutionary biology, a cross-section of cell organelles, and a Purkinje neuron which famously looks like the roots or branches of a tree. One concept that kept coming up in my education was networks, which I think ties together some of these sub-disciplines nicely, and is the final part this illustration. Networks are useful when thinking about food webs in community ecology, vastly interconnected biochemical processes and brain regions, as well as how humans and animals behave within complex social systems.
