
science illustration & communication
FUNDAMENTALS OF CELL BIOLOGY
Over 100 images were designed and created for this Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook published by Oregon State University in January of 2024.
Co-written by Dr. Lauren Dalton of Oregon State University and Dr. Robin Young of the University of British Columbia, the project is an eight chapter textbook designed for second-year university students.
In April of 2026, the team (Dalton, Young, and myself) received the UBC OER Excellence and Impact Award.
The illustrations are noted as being "central to the clarity and accessibility of the material, particularly for visual learners encountering complex cellular processes for the first time".
The textbook was designed to be fully compliant with the US Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
All images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.























