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Talk: Artist Tanya Chaly in Conversation with Scientist John Petrini, PhD

About

Tanya Chaly was born in Sydney, Australia and currently lives and works in New York City. She is a visual artist and works across a variety of mediums using painting, drawing and printmaking. In her practice she examines ideas of the Natural World; the history of Natural Science, notions of nature and classifications of Wilderness and the fetishization of Nature. Currently she has been looking at Ecosystems, both the macro and micro relationships within these systems. She creates layered and involved worlds drawing on a wide range of influences from Gothic, Primitivism, Eastern Philosophy, Psychology, and the Natural Sciences.

John Petrini, PhD, is the Chair of the Molecular Biology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute and the Director of The Functional Genomics Initiative. His research focuses on the repair of chromosomal breaks and the activation of the DNA-damage-induced cell-cycle checkpoints. Dr. Petrini received his PhD from University of Michigan Medical School.