Akriti Sondhi is a contemporary artist currently working on a bio-art project called ‘soft-earth’. She is also a commercial and fine art photographer and explores alternative photography methods. In this interview, she reflects on her experience of working with living organisms as an artistic medium and the intersection of science and art.

In this article, Shreeya, Stutee and Karishma recount their experiences on working remotely on a new research area during the pandemic, the former two as students and the latter as mentor. Their project led to a publication. Biofilm-AMP is a now a published structural and functional repository of AMPs for biofilm studies. The work was also published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.