Anna Kalisvaart

@akalisva.bsky.social

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Instructor in Neuroscience @BurkeNeuroSci & @WeillCornell Translational stroke researcher (Intracerebral Hemorrhage) | PhD @UAlberta 🇨🇦 | Microscopy, cycling, & linocut geek. Views are my own.

Delicate pink magnolia blossoms against a blue spring sky
The sun is rising below a trestle ridge painted blue. Under the bridge, there is a frozen snow-laden river and a pathway leading off into the distance.
Stylized gouache paintings of the rat hippocampal formation in orange, purple, and red pigments
A lab coat partially covered in linocut block relief prints cut to look like organelles, DNA, neurons, and the heart. Printed in electric blue ink.
A backwards linocut print of the human heart with some anatomical inaccuracies that will forever haunt the creator
Anna is at a lecture podium in a cool blazer, showing a graph depicting hippocampal cell volume measurements in either control or stroke rats, with n=70 rats per group
Anna is holding two award certificates