Research Interests: Life sciences; history of biology; history of art and architecture; science & technology studies; feminist STS;scientific practice; media studies.

Beatrice is a PhD candidate in an ad hoc program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and History of Science with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice. Her dissertation explores the common visual histories and practices of art and science through multiple entry points. Her historically-oriented work demonstrates the ways organismal morphogenesis has been theorized through visual making—drawing, animation, film, and model-making—from the late-19th through the mid-20th century. Primarily through filmmaking and exhibition design, she seeks to demonstrate the potential of sensorial, multi-media research for crafting feminist science studies scholarship. In the lab she uses a variety of microscopy and computational imaging techniques to understand the architecture of early-stage embryogenesis in a species of marine crustacean. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Harvard Presidential Scholar.

Publications:

Y. Nemtsova, B. L. Steinert and K.A. Wharton. Compartment specific mitochondrial dysfunction in Drosophila knock-in model of ALS reversed by altered gene expression of OXPHOS subunits and pro-fission factor Drp1. Compartment specific mitochondrial dysfunction in Drosophila knock-in model of ALS reversed by altered gene expression of OXPHOS subunits and pro-fission factor Drp1. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience 125 (June 2023): 103834.

Steinert, Beatrice. “Janina Wellmann, The Form of Becoming: Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760-1830,” Journal of the History of Biology 52 (September 2019), 493-495.

Katherine S. Yanagi, Zhijin Wu, Joshua Amaya, Natalie Chapkis, Amanda M. Duffy, Kaitlyn H. Hajdarovic, Aaron Held, Arjun D. Mathur, Kathryn Russo, Veronica H. Ryan, Beatrice L. Steinert, Joshua P. Whitt, Justin R. Fallon, Nicolas L. Fawzi,Diane Lipscombe, Robert A. Reenan, Kristi A. Wharton, Anne C. Hart, Meta-Analysis of Genetic Modifiers Reveals Candidate Dysregulated Pathways in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Neuroscience 396 (January 1, 2019): A3–20.

Steinert, Beatrice and Kate MacCord, “Visualizing the Cell: Pictorial Styles and their Epistemic Goals in General Cytology,” in Visions of Cell Biology: Reflections Inspired by Cowdry’s General Cytology, eds. Karl Matlin, Jane Maienschein, and Manfred Laubichler, University of Chicago Press, 2018

Presentations and Screenings:

Steinert, Beatrice, Advik Beni, Beth Ribeiro. “Sincerely Yours, Ethel Browne Harvey.” Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology, New Haven, CT, April 2023 and Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, NY, October 2022.

Steinert, Beatrice, Leo Blondel, Valia Stamataki, Anastasios Pavlopoulos, Cassandra G. Extavour. “Formation of a cellular square grid in the Parhyale hawaiensis embryo.” International Congress for Invertebrate Morphology, Vienna, Austria, August 2022.

Steinert, Beatrice. “Dying Things” (in roundtable “Making Things Visible in the History of Science”). British Society for the History of Science Global Digital History of Science Festival, July 2020.

Previous Degrees: 

B.A., Biology/Science & Society, Brown University