# Beatrice Steinert ![Steinert](/sites/g/files/omnuum9516/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/hos/files/steinert_headshot.jpg?itok=cxuwtPaP) email *Research Interests: Life sciences; history of biology; history of art and architecture; science & technology studies; feminist STS;scientific practice; media studies*. Beatrice completed a PhD in an [ad hoc program](https://gsas.harvard.edu/academic-programs/ad-hoc-degree-programs) in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and History of Science with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice. She is currently a [Provost's STEM Postdoctoral Fellow](https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/provost/dr-beatrice-steinert) at Brown University. 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](https://www.extavourlab.com/people/beatrice-steinert/) 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](https://www.nsfgrfp.org/) 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](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1044743123000283). *Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience* 125 (June 2023): 103834. Steinert, Beatrice. [“Janina Wellmann, The Form of Becoming: Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760-1830,”](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-019-09576-3) *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.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30594291/) *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*](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo27351888.html), 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 - ## People Categories [Recent Alumni](/current-persons/alumni) - ## Graduate Research Interests [Digital Humanities / Digital Histories](/graduate-research-interests/digital-humanities-digital-histories) [History of Biology](/graduate-research-interests/history-biology) [Material Culture](/graduate-research-interests/material-culture) [Media Studies](/graduate-research-interests/media-studies) [Museum Studies](/graduate-research-interests/museum-studies) [Science & Technology Studies](/graduate-research-interests/science-technology-society) [Visual Representation in Science](/graduate-research-interests/visual-representation-science) [Women and Gender Studies](/graduate-research-interests/women-and-gender-studies)