Art is an essential part of science. And for Nick Navin, Ph.D., it’s a succinct way to share important scientific discoveries.

“Art is how we communicate information, how we visualize data,” says Navin, chair of Systems Biology.

Back when he was a graduate student in Molecular Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Stony Brook University, Navin developed some of the first single-cell sequencing methods.

“Breast...