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As a postdoctoral fellow she created a multimedia exhibit with Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak (Harvard University) and the Museum of Science Boston and later worked on biological visualizations as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. She received her Ph.D.

in 2006 from the University of California San Francisco for her work on the actin cytoskeleton in the laboratory of Dyche Mullins and completed 3D animation training at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects later that same summer. Janet's colorful and action-packed 3D animations bring complex scientific hypotheses to life showing how we think molecules look move and interact.

Not only is molecular animation a powerful way to illustrate ideas and convey information to general audiences it's also a powerful tools for inspiring new research. However 3D molecular animation using commercial software requires skill and time so Janet has created a simpler 3D animation software tool for biologists allowing researchers to intuitively and quickly model molecular hypotheses.

In 2014 she launched the beta of her new free open-source animation software Molecular Flipbook which allows biologists to create molecular animations of their own hypotheses in just 15 minutes.