Liana Harper Price: A Melding of Science & the Sublime

The Alchemist of Life & Art

In a world that is fixated on binaries—left brain versus right, logic versus emotion, art versus science—I am a living contradiction. A Synthetic Biology Researcher during the day and a poet of molecules at night. My laboratory is my canvas, and my petri dishes are my palette. Every engineered cell tells a story — a sonnet, written in DNA.

The Flowering of a Visionary

Growing up in a home filled with my mother’s oil paintings and my father’s microscope, I quickly learned that beauty is fractal. A neuron’s branched dendrites echo the veins of a leaf in autumn. The rhythm of CRISPR edits reflects a Rilke poem’s cadence. I see the universe in a drop of cytoplasm.

My Life Philosophy: Elegance in the Chaos

Life is not about balance — it’s about orchestrated disequilibrium. I revel in the friction of precision and fervor. My research? Designing organisms that glow like fireflies. My art? Harnessing the luminescence of existence in words and wavelengths.

"We are all temporary reactions in nature’s expansive experiment. We might as well be astonishing."

Why Follow Me?

• For the daydreamers who think science can be sensual.
• For the nonconformists who wear lab coats like silk dresses.
• For seekers of the ecstatic—the exhilaration of discovery—whether in a gene sequence or the epiphany of 3am.

🔬 At present: Engineering E. coli to secrete watercolor pigments. (Seriously.)
🎨 Secret Vice: Sketching protein folds in charcoal.
🌌 Guilty Pleasure: Rewriting Frankenstein as a love story.

—Liana
(P.S. The most dangerous thing in my lab isn’t the pathogens… It’s my unapologetic idealism.)