Update - summer 2023
Flozbox-science illustration has recently become my full time work commitment.
Please click the link above to visit my science illustration site for more examples of work and further details on how to commission a project.
After 10 wonderful years at the John Innes Centre, I said my farewells in the spring of 2023 and finally made the move to Córdoba, Spain.
Science technician / phenotyping assistant
In 2013 I found work as a summer casual in the Uauy group at the John Innes Centre, working in the fields and glasshouses to supplement my income as an artist.
My summer contract was extended through the winter, in which time I learnt the purpose and the importance of the work I had carried out over the past months. Having seen the cycle through I became fascinated, the job grew more rewarding and ever more appealing; working out in the fresh air during the summer months, and in the glasshouses and the lab through the winter, learning the basics of crop genetics.
This paints a rosy picture, there were also many dusty days in the field, sweltering harvests in the polytunnels, not to mention sacks and sacks of material to phenotype and thresh.
In 2019 I began to lead the teams in-field phenotypic data collection and post-harvest assessment of yield component traits.
I provided technical assistance to the germplasm development, glasshouse and field experiments for the Uauy group. In which mapping populations, single seed descent populations, backcrossed Near Isogenic Lines and Recombinant Inbred Lines are developed for trait evaluation in polytunnel and field experiments.
The full infection cycle on wheat and barberry
Edited by Professor Richard Oliver (Chapter by Diane G. O. Saunders)
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing October 2021
A graphical abstract
Beyond the gene: epigenetic and cis-regulatory targets offer new breeding potential for the future
A developmental timescale of the brain in human and mice
Center for Neuroscience, Delaware State University
For more examples please visit www.flozbox-science.com
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Most of my previous work has been related to crop genetics due to my involvement within the area of study, but I do on occasion get the chance to illustrate other subjects, in which I take equal pleasure.
Update - summer 2023
Flozbox-science illustration has recently become my full time work commitment.
Please click the link above to visit my science illustration site for more examples of work and further details on how to commission a project.
After 10 wonderful years at the John Innes Centre, I said my farewells in the spring of 2023 and finally made the move to Córdoba, Spain.
The full infection cycle on wheat and barberry
Edited by Professor Richard Oliver (Chapter by Diane G. O. Saunders)
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing October 2021
A graphical abstract
Beyond the gene: epigenetic and cis-regulatory targets offer new breeding potential for the future
A developmental timescale of the brain in human and mice
Center for Neuroscience, Delaware State University
Illustrated science figures, modern wheat, wheat landraces
Most of my previous work has been related to crop genetics due to my involvement within the area of study, but I do on occasion get the chance to illustrate other subjects, in which I take equal pleasure.
Science technician / phenotyping assistant
In 2013 I found work as a summer casual in the Uauy group at the John Innes Centre, working in the fields and glasshouses to supplement my income as an artist.
My summer contract was extended through the winter, in which time I learnt the purpose and the importance of the work I had carried out over the past months. Having seen the cycle through I became fascinated, the job grew more rewarding and ever more appealing; working out in the fresh air during the summer months, and in the glasshouses and the lab through the winter, learning the basics of crop genetics.
This paints a rosy picture, there were also many dusty days in the field, sweltering harvests in the polytunnels, not to mention sacks and sacks of material to phenotype and thresh.
In 2019 I began to lead the teams in-field phenotypic data collection and post-harvest assessment of yield component traits.
I provided technical assistance to the germplasm development, glasshouse and field experiments for the Uauy group. In which mapping populations, single seed descent populations, backcrossed Near Isogenic Lines and Recombinant Inbred Lines are developed for trait evaluation in polytunnel and field experiments.
For more examples please visit