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Articles by Amanda Dee
The Art & War of Seeing in “Carousel”
The design of the first motion-picture camera was based on the machine gun. This is the type of revelation that gives reading Sarah Minor’s Carousel: An Essay on Seeing the sensation of touring a museum of illusion. Minor’s eccentric prose and quick leaps in thought may induce a kind of vertigo. While the object in view may reappear almost as before, it’s been altered by a shift in our perception. It’s not unlike what happens when we experience or witness violence.
Multiplexed profiling of transcriptional regulators in plant cells - Nature Biotechnology
Abstract Transcriptional regulators play key roles in plant growth, development and environmental responses; however, understanding how their regulatory activity is encoded at the protein level has been hindered by a lack of multiplexed large-scale methods to characterize protein libraries in planta.
Multiplexed profiling of transcriptional regulators in plant cells
Abstract Transcriptional regulatory domains play key roles in plant growth, development, and environmental responses. Massively parallel reporter assays in yeast and animal cells have enabled large-scale studies of libraries of transcriptional regulators and other classes of proteins, however, similar technologies are limited in plants.
Quantitative dissection of Agrobacterium T-DNA expression in single plant cells reveals density-dependent synergy and antagonism - Nature Plants
Abstract Agrobacterium pathogenesis, which involves transferring T-DNA into plant cells, is the cornerstone of plant genetic engineering. As the applications that rely on Agrobacterium increase in sophistication, it becomes critical to achieve a quantitative and predictive understanding of T-DNA expression at the level of single plant cells. Here we examine if a classic Poisson model of interactions between pathogens and host cells holds true for Agrobacterium infecting Nicotiana benthamiana.
Katie Chung honors the ordinary
While Katie Chung draws a clear line between her public mural and personal art practices, inside her home the boundary between her life and her work is faint, if visible at all. Quilts she’s sewn from laundry tags gathered at her mother’s dry cleaning and alterations shop hang in her dining room. Against a wall rests an industrial desk, also inherited from her mother’s Lakeview shop.
Quilting into queer ritual
I first found artist Eliza Fernand through a flier in a north-side coffee shop. Next to a menu for lattes and cold brews was a half sheet of paper promoting a workshop in hand-drawn cursive; it read “queer quilting.” When I visit one of these workshops, where sewing machines stitch new shapes of fabric into being, I meet others who have followed the sign to Fernand’s Rogers Park studio. This small flier, Fernand tells me, is how many “quilt-curious queers” find the space.
Devon eccentric campaigns for the rights of the disabled
“Nothing comes easy for the disabled,” - laments Colin Shaddick, a 75 year old disabled resident of Barnstaple, - “My world is contained within a ten mile radius: up to a fence where experiences end and memories exist.” But Colin’s ability to travel, limited by the power of a battery pack and the rocketing prices of mobility equipment, does not stop him from going an extra mile in his campaign for the rights of the disabled residents of Devon.
A Hack in the System: Raising Chameleon Blind in Chicago’s Vacant Spaces
Mara Baker, “Chameleon Blind Uptown,” 2020/Photo: Useful Art Services Chicago artist and educator Mara Baker doesn’t consider herself an activist, but her life’s work is activation. Acrylic glass from a construction site, a potato sack from a CSA, detritus collected from walks in Garfield Park, over the years become the bones and sometimes the garments of a newborn artwork.
In House: Pilsen Community Books with Mary Gibbons
This is the first interview of “In House,” an oral history series entering the places that house books across Chicago. Sections of this interview have been edited for length and clarity. I first heard the rumor from a fellow reader who in turn heard it from another reader (word travels fast amongst readers): Pilsen Community Books was for sale.
Bangin’ botany | Dayton City Paper
Some parts of life are inescapable: death, taxes, and, apparently for this writer, bug sex. Hear me out—I went to professor Don Cipollini’s lab with honorable intentions. I wanted a botany lesson, a family-friendly educational experience. But as it turns out, plant reproduction often calls for bugs to get it on, too. Cipollini earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana University and his doctorate from Penn State.
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