BioBus + Brotherhood Sister Sol

Alison Dell, BioBus Lead Community Scientist, is a molecular biologist and artist. Dell received her Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she now teaches in the department of Fine Art and Design. Dell is co-founder of Art in the Lab, an ongoing series bringing scientists and artists together for events that mix drawing and laboratory work.  

Maia Yoshida graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in Cellular & Molecular Biology. She then spent two years at the Lim Lab at the University of California, San Francisco, studying immune cell cytokine signaling networks and their applications for engineering cell therapies that target cancers. She also headed the lab's outreach efforts, developing programs in collaboration with the Exploratorium and the California College of the Arts and became excited about science education that integrates the arts. This led her to pursue a M.A. in STEM Education at King's College London as a Thouron Scholar. There, she conducted original research with the Institute of Imagination on children’s perceptions of the relationship between maker education and inquiry-based science learning and also interned with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to develop a program focused on inspiring and supporting youth plant science interests through design-based approaches.