Dr.
Myers’ research includes examining the lively visual and performance cultures
that thrive in contemporary life science laboratories and classrooms. She
conducts fieldwork among an interdisciplinary group of scientists who image,
model, and simulate subvisible molecular realms through computer-intensive
technologies. In many ways these scientific researchers are aiming to elucidate
the very material substructure of living bodies. She is interested how the work
of modeling substances at the molecular scale is shaping how we make sense of
life, and human and nonhuman bodies. Curious about how laboratories operate as
spaces for producing scientists, she is tracking how pedagogy and training
shape forms of knowing in the practical cultures of technoscience. This
research extends the current literature on pedagogy and visualization in
science by drawing on concerns raised in the feminist science studies
literature around modes of embodiment and the roles of affect and performance
in science. In her teaching, she explores the intersections of race, gender and
science as well as the craft of scientific practice and the power of facts in
social worlds.
