Catherine Williams

@cjaw.bsky.social

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Vet, Assistant Prof, Artist, Mum. Comparative physiologist with interests in anaesthesia, analgesia ❤️ 🫁 🧠 and bone. Currently studying these in the context of 🐔 keel bone fracture.

A scientific illustration of a beetle by Richard Tinbetts on the cover of Nature
Sketch of Huw Golledge opening the SciFAW conferences
A sketch of Huw Golledge from Science for Animal Welfare kicking off the UFAW conference
A digital drawing made from an oil painting by the poster, showing pigeons taking off. The eyes of two birds one on the ground, one in flight, are highlighted. The paper discusses the function of the bird eye - with its inner retina able to sustain high metabolism in anoxia, thanks partially to the action of the pecten - a structure suspended in the back chamber of the eye
A sketch of a white laying hen from the side
A black ink linocut of a dog running, specifically an irish wolfhound.
Lino print of a labrador puppy in black on a white card
A lino cut of a wild boar in black ink
The surface of a lino print with an incised hare in white, the lines in black and the background a grey from the last print
A live watercolour sketch of a cellist performing Schumanns cello concerto with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
A lino cut of an elephant in black
A lino cet print of a bull's head in black
A linocut print of a cow's head reaching down to sniff a newborn calf
A linocut print of a puffin
A lino print in black of a cat curled up.
A small watercolour sketch of two wet chickens with rain splatting the paint.
Two lino prints of a runner duck witha a curl in its tail and a stocky chicken.
A better image of microCT and xray diffrqction data from osteoderms! From https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202526169
6 species of lizard and their osteoderms, shown in microCT and xray diffraction data. Two different patterns emerge - the capping tissue is highly mineralised and superficial, but can be highly ordered, or highly disordered and with small or large crystallite volume respectively!
A microCT of a Heloderma osteroderm paired with xray diffraction and xray fluorescence data showing the superficial capping tissue and underlying transition zone and bone.
A GIF of great talks (and my poster)
Peter Radcliffe discussing hypoxia sensing, oxygen from history, publishing and future perspectives
A sketch of a presenting scientist talking to a conference presenting work on the links between age, infection status and blood metabolism.
A GIF of 3 minute Sketches of incoming fellows at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies
Sketch of a scientist and two frogs... one much bigger than the other. And notes on cell number vs cell size, with the latter constrained by genome size and the former potentially by organ function
Erin Hecht summarising work on behaviour and brains over canine evolution from wolf ancestors, commensal dogs and domestic dogs accross breeds.
A sketch of me by Sam Payne talking lizard osteoderms especially their capping tissue. From work in Matt Vickaryous' lab at Guelph and in collaboration with many international authors, most recently Henrik Birkedal's lab at Aarhus as well as an HSFP funded group led by Mehran Moazen at UCL. Highlighted papers included those led by Loïc Kèver, Arsalan Marghoub, Anastasiia Maliuk, and unpublished work led by Adrian Roderiguez Palamo and Gabriella Willan.
A sketch of Carl Zimmer delivering a plenary speech for the American Association of Anatomists, drawing on material on heredity, on the history of modern (18th-21st centuary) anatomy, including its mis use in eugenics and the necessity of confronting this history and communicating current science.
Joanna on vasculopathies and endothelial cells
A sketch of me discussing the heart of the leopard gecko and its response to cryo injury
A sketch from a talk by Professor Martin Krarup Nielsen on equine parasitology, the normality of parasites, talking about what anti-helmintic (anti-worm) drugs have been previously used in horses, the development of resistance, and the importance of control mechanisms that do not depend on drugs.
Sketch of Prof Lars Bejder giving the seminar of the week on body condition scores (how much blubber) of humpback whales on their migrations back and forth from Hawa'i (giving birth) to Alaska (feeding), and how this feeds into numbers and size of whales born. Also the cross over with other organisms (e.g. krill), methods (e.g. drone measurements and non invasive tags and samples, and how we as humans think about both whales and the general environment.
A sketch of Colin Brauner delivering the Kjell Johannsen lecture on physiology at Aarhus University on fish gill physiology
A sketch from a seminar by AIAS fellow Andrei Kalinichev on the use of colour and chemistry in soil science to monitor oxygen etc.
A sketch of Andrei Kalinichev presenting his work on the use of colour as chemical information, here for use in soil science
CT scan of the lungs of a Trachemys scripta
An Eskimo curlew specimen, in a talk from Clara Dawson also dealing with a poem by Christina Rosetti.
A pen and ink sketch of two overlapping broiler chickens. Made for a PhD covet of a friend looking at gait scoring and welfare.
Sketch of a hedgehog bursting from a cloud of pine needles, with a beetle
The cover of Matthew Cobb's "the idea of the brain"
A 3d render of a CT scan (lots of xrays at different angles compiled together) of a red eared slider (Trachemys scripta) showing the lungs in red. From a paper exploring lung volume under different inhaled ventilation pressures and body posture.
Sketches of Fellows at @AIAS doing 3 minute presentations
A screen shot of a figure from a paper, showing a fluid preserved platypus with encapsulated radio dense structures in MRI and CT which turned out to be the tissue diffused remnants of lead based shot.
A figure of a fluid preserved platypus specimen displaying MRI/CT and microCT images of multiple hyper radio dense nodules.