Tang Rong
Honours student
Anggono lab
Queensland Brain Institute
"Creativity, to me, is the ability to see a familiar thing from a different angle and make connections that were not obvious before."
Honours student
Anggono lab
Queensland Brain Institute
"Creativity, to me, is the ability to see a familiar thing from a different angle and make connections that were not obvious before."
"In research, creativity appears when designing experiments, interpreting unexpected results, and finding new ways to connect observations into a testable idea."
This work imagines a single hippocampal neuron as the beginning of a living forest, where branching forms reflect growth, connection, and the quiet beauty hidden within neural structures.
The image begins with a single fluorescent hippocampal neuron and gradually transforms it into a living forest. Across the image, the neuron's delicate processes become branches, its cell body becomes a trunk, and its expanding structure begins to resemble a tree. The sequence moves from something microscopic and unfamiliar to a form we instantly recognise in nature. What draws me in is the visual similarity between neuronal branching and the growth of a tree: both suggest connection, expansion and change overtime. The dark background allows the green structures to glow, giving the work a quiet, almost dream-like sense of growth.
Tang Rong is an Honours student at the Queensland Brain Institute. Her research focuses on neuronal signalling and how activity at synapses can influence molecular events in the nucleus. She is particularly interested in the relationship between neuronal activity, protein interactions and chromatin regulation. Through both her research and scientific imagery, she enjoys exploring how microscopic structures can reveal unexpected patterns, connections and beauty.
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