John McGhee's guest appearances

John McGhee

TRUTH IN RHYTHM

UNSW Alumni

Agency Hacker

Kate Dunn

David Wong

Veena Sahajwalla

Toby Walsh

Pasi Sahlberg

Angela Nickerson

Susan Thompson

Alison Bashford

Jonathan Lui

Louise Chappell

Hank Haeusler

Henry Brodaty

OwlTail

Imagine you’re walking inside a human artery. To your right is a sharp drop into sticky red substance, while to your left is a living, breathing wall. You dodge fast-moving blood cells as well as ominous black cancer cells twice your size, and wriggle your way through mucus-like tumours. Gross? Maybe. Fascinating? You bet.Today, this kind of cellular-level exploration has become a possibility – well, sort of. While science fiction writers have long theorised the exploration of the human body by use of a shrink ray, all we actually needed was virtual reality.At September's Learn@Lunch event, Associate Professor John McGhee discussed his fascinating work at UNSW’s 3D Visualisation Aesthetics Lab, which has led him to be named one of UNSW’s 21 ‘Rising Stars’. Through visual examples, he demonstrated how he animates the body’s complex inner landscapes, and shared how his research into the artistic visualisation of scientific and biomedical data can help increase our understanding of human disease.

Imagine you’re walking inside a human artery. To your right is a sharp drop into sticky red substance, while to your left is a living, breathing wall. You dodge fast-moving blood cells as well as ominous black cancer cells twice your size, and wriggle your way through mucus-like tumours. Gross? Maybe. Fascinating? You bet.<br><br>Today, this kind of cellular-level exploration has become a possibility – well, sort of. While science fiction writers have long theorised the exploration of the human body by use of a shrink ray, all we actually needed was virtual reality.<br><br>At September's Learn@Lunch event, Associate Professor John McGhee discussed his fascinating work at UNSW’s 3D Visualisation Aesthetics Lab, which has led him to be named one of UNSW’s 21 ‘Rising Stars’. Through visual examples, he demonstrated how he animates the body’s complex inner landscapes, and shared how his research into the artistic visualisation of scientific and biomedical data can help increase our understanding of human disease.

Learn@Lunch with Associate Professor John McGhee | Take a VR trip inside your body