Topography series, detail
I am a scientist, artist, and writer.
My writing — on algorithmic art, a forgotten female scientific illustrator, and the mechanisms of mass extinctions — has appeared in Scientific American, Kenyon Review, and Rain Taxi.
Currently, I’m a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University in the Xiong and Didychuk laboratories studying viruses using cryogenic electron microscopes.
I earned my Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia University investigating the mechanism through which the fundamental biological processes of transcription and translation are coupled in bacteria. Previously, I earned my B.A. in Chemistry and Studio Art from Kenyon College. My artwork explores landscape, mapping, and memory.
Writing
My writing — on algorithmic art, a forgotten female scientific illustrator, and the mechanisms of mass extinctions — has appeared in Scientific American, Kenyon Review, and Rain Taxi.
Currently, I’m a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University in the Xiong and Didychuk laboratories studying viruses using cryogenic electron microscopes.
I earned my Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia University investigating the mechanism through which the fundamental biological processes of transcription and translation are coupled in bacteria. Previously, I earned my B.A. in Chemistry and Studio Art from Kenyon College. My artwork explores landscape, mapping, and memory.
Writing
Watershed: Attending to body and earth in distress. Rain Taxi Review of Books. 2023
From apocalypse to apocalypso: On An Ecotopian Lexicon. Kenyon Review. 2021
On The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen. Kenyon Review. 2020
An uncanny display: Algorithmic art at the Whitney. Scientific American. 2018
A pioneering female scientific illustrator, rediscovered. Scientific American. 2018
Is it art or is it science? Scientific American. 2017
Science ︎ ︎
Visualizing the translation landscape in human cells at high resolution. bioRxiv. 2024. W. Zheng, Y. Zhang, J. Wang, S. Wang, P. Chai, E. J. Bailey, W. Guo, S. Devarkar, S. Wu, J. Lin, K. Zhang, J. Liu, I. Lomakin, Y. Xiong.
NusG-mediated coupling of transcription and translation enhances gene expression by suppressing RNA polymerase backtracking. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2022. E. J. Bailey, M. E. Gottesman, R. L. Gonzalez.
The mechanism of NusG-mediated transcription-translation coupling and the role of RacR in transcription regulation in Escherichia coli. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. 2019. E. J. Bailey
Art
Archipelago, group exhibition. Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Montreal, QC. 2023
Making Art in the Age of Algorithms, symposium lightning talk. Center for Science and Society, Columbia University. New York, NY. 2018
Smart Dust, group exhibition, SLA307. New York, NY. 2017
Young Emerging Artist Award, Alegre Fiber Art Retreat. Grand Junction, CO. 2017
Scopa Stills #1 & #2, permanent display. Lakeside Apartments, Princeton, NJ. 2014
Topography, exhibition. Gund Gallery. Gambier, OH. 2012
Ex Mattatoio, site-specific group exhibition, Rome, IT. 2010
Selected Awards
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow (F32). 2024
FASEB Virus Structure and Assembly Conference, Poster Award. 2024
Beyond the Ivory Tower, Writing Workshop. 2022
Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers, Nonfiction Finalist. 2021
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow. 2015-2019
Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. 2010-2012
From apocalypse to apocalypso: On An Ecotopian Lexicon. Kenyon Review. 2021
On The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen. Kenyon Review. 2020
An uncanny display: Algorithmic art at the Whitney. Scientific American. 2018
A pioneering female scientific illustrator, rediscovered. Scientific American. 2018
Is it art or is it science? Scientific American. 2017
Science ︎ ︎
Visualizing the translation landscape in human cells at high resolution. bioRxiv. 2024. W. Zheng, Y. Zhang, J. Wang, S. Wang, P. Chai, E. J. Bailey, W. Guo, S. Devarkar, S. Wu, J. Lin, K. Zhang, J. Liu, I. Lomakin, Y. Xiong.
NusG-mediated coupling of transcription and translation enhances gene expression by suppressing RNA polymerase backtracking. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2022. E. J. Bailey, M. E. Gottesman, R. L. Gonzalez.
The mechanism of NusG-mediated transcription-translation coupling and the role of RacR in transcription regulation in Escherichia coli. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. 2019. E. J. Bailey
Art
Archipelago, group exhibition. Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Montreal, QC. 2023
Making Art in the Age of Algorithms, symposium lightning talk. Center for Science and Society, Columbia University. New York, NY. 2018
Smart Dust, group exhibition, SLA307. New York, NY. 2017
Young Emerging Artist Award, Alegre Fiber Art Retreat. Grand Junction, CO. 2017
Scopa Stills #1 & #2, permanent display. Lakeside Apartments, Princeton, NJ. 2014
Topography, exhibition. Gund Gallery. Gambier, OH. 2012
Ex Mattatoio, site-specific group exhibition, Rome, IT. 2010
Selected Awards
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow (F32). 2024
FASEB Virus Structure and Assembly Conference, Poster Award. 2024
Beyond the Ivory Tower, Writing Workshop. 2022
Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers, Nonfiction Finalist. 2021
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow. 2015-2019
Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. 2010-2012
Contact
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