Dr. Majury has a long history of public health and infectious disease practice having trained and worked as a Veterinarian and with specialized training in Veterinary Infectious Diseases. She also attained her PhD at Queen’s prior to completing her (human) clinical microbiology residency training in Toronto after which she joined Public Health Ontario in 2000. Currently the majority of her research explores environmental health and microbiology with a focus on water, and in the context rural and remote communities and on public health intervention and policy. Her research approaches issues a holistically, with a public health/population/ecohealth lens and works towards knowledge generation, translation and problem solving in real time. Outside of work, Anna is a devoted mom of three wonderful children, and, in her spare time, she pursues her artistic side, primarily through painting and fabric arts, and her love of the outdoors through ventures such as kayaking and riding. Finally, she is a strong animal ethics advocate and works through various channels to support both the ethical treatment and employment of non-human animals by humans.

Elaine Whittaker considers biology as contemporary art practice. Her artworks intersect art, science, and medicine, exploring the forces that make us human—from the foundational processes and materials needed to form an organism, to the microscopic world of cellular ecologies. Her practice is principally based in installation, and includes sculpture, painting, drawing, digital imagery and sound. Her artwork has been exhibited in the Science Gallery London (UK), Riddoch Art Gallery (Mount Gambier, Australia), Harcourt House (Edmonton, Canada), Fudan University Science Gallery, (Shanghai, China), Gwacheon National Science Museum (Seoul, South Korea), Islip Art Museum (Long Island, USA), Ontario Science Centre (Toronto, Canada), Science Gallery Dublin (Ireland), ARC Gallery (Chicago, USA), Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art (Winnipeg, Canada), Yukon Arts Centre Gallery (Whitehorse, Canada), McMaster Museum of Art (Hamilton, Canada), Kunsthaus Santa Fe (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico), the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (US), and the Red Head Gallery (Toronto, Canada). Whittaker has been an invited participant in residencies, workshops and festivals on science, art and medicine. Her artwork has been featured in literary, academic, and medical periodicals, and is included in William Myers’ book, BioArt: Altered Realities, Thames & Hudson, 2015.

Lowell Cochrane has been designing and producing multimedia exhibits for museums and educational institutions for the past 20 years.  He began his career at Science North in Sudbury Ontario as a producer, writer and creative director.  He was a key member of the initial entrepreneurial team that developed the centre’s capacity to leverage the science centre’s in-house production talents into an international exhibit sales enterprise, named Science North Enterprises. In 2002, Lowell founded Show Communications, a multimedia exhibit company in Kingston, Ontario.  Since 2002, Lowell has built Show Communications into a world-class studio, producing dozens of multimedia installations, video productions, interactive kiosks and websites for diverse clients. Throughout his career, Lowell has been involved in all aspects of interpretive and conceptual planning, content development, creative direction, and production. Prior to his career in multimedia production, Lowell taught atmospheric science to school groups and tourists at Science North as a Science Communicator.  He considers this experience the seminal experience that led to a professional career in informal learning. Lowell also writes science articles for magazine and journals, and has been invited to speak about communicating through multimedia storytelling. His projects have garnered many awards, including a Best Visitor Experience Award from the Association of Science and Technology Centres, two TEA Awards and a Gold Medal from the Canadian Association of Science Centres.