Prof Rob Kesseler is a visual artist and Emeritus Professor of Arts, Design & Science at Central Saint Martins. For the past twenty years he has been using a range of complex microscopy processes to create multi-frame composite images of plant organs. He has collaborated with Kew Gardens, The John Innes Centre, MRC Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute. Recent projects include an award-winning series of books on Pollen, Seeds and Fruit, solo exhibitions in North America, Chile, Germany and Greece and a feature for the BBC on seeds and climate change. In 2010 Kesseler was Year of Biodiversity Fellow at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and Ambassador for Royal Microscopical Society.

Dr Shem Johnson is the Specialist Technician at the Grow Lab, a fully equipped biological lab that caters to the staff and students of Central Saint Martins. He brings a cross-disciplinary approach to bridging the divide between art, design and science. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, and a masters and PhD in biochemistry at the University of Geneva where he spent most of his time peering through microscopes at the marvels of cellular mechanics.

Life microscopy & imaging @growlab