“Passage” (Potassium Channel Selectivity Filter”

“Passage” (Potassium Channel Selectivity Filter”

Current Exhibit: “The Cellular Universe Through Stained Glass”

Harvard Medical School, NRB/New Research Building, 77 Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

Opening Reception and Talk, July 24, 4-6 pm, 2019. Exhibit continues into 2024.

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Most of the stained glass artworks on this website have been on display in the windows of the NRB (New Research Building) of Harvard Medical School since 2019. This month, November 2024, I have donated all those works to Harvard Medical School to honor the Late Professor Alfred (Fred) Goldberg. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Arthritis Foundation in Dr. Goldberg’s laboratory from 1972-1975. Following, I took a faculty position at Emmanuel College, Boston, just a short walk away from Harvard Med. I continued to visit Fred and I was always, ALWAYS, welcomed, asked to sit and talk about my career and my life. He was a brilliant scientist and a friend until his death. ——- Joel Kowit ——
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I would like it if a scientist comes to work, sees the sun shining through one of these pieces, and feels inspired and valued, if a non-scientist appreciates them for their artistic qualities, becomes curious and wants to know more, and if young people look at these and start asking questions – especially questions that we never thought of and to which we don’t know the answers.

Exhibit Works:

  • "Tolerance" (Major Histocompatibility Complex II with MBP peptide)

  • "Inhibition" (HIV Protease with Indinavir)

  • "Motion" (Flagellar Axoneme showing "9 + 2" structure)

  • "Passage" (Potassium Channel Selectivity Filter)

  • "Recognition" (Major Histocompatibility Complex I with HTLV viral peptide)

  • "Migration" (Leukocyte Extravasation)

  • "Degradation" (26 S Proteasome)

  • "Loss" (Beta-Amyloid Fibril (Osaka Mutation))

  • "Vibration" (Organ of Corti)

  • "Exchange" (Chiasmata)

  • "Excitation" (Green Fluorescent Protein with Aequorea victoria)

  • "Contract" (Sarcomere)

  • "Replication" (Anaphase, Mitosis)

  • "CRISPR Cas9" (Cas9 Enzyme)

  • "Inflammation" (NLRP3 Inflammasome Series)