B.A. Biology/Science & Society. Brown University
Ph.D. History of Science and Organismic & Evolutionary Biology. Harvard University.

Beatrice performed her doctoral research in our lab as a PhD candidate in an independent ad hoc program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and History of Science. In our lab, she studied early embryonic morphogenesis in Parhyale hawaiensis using a variety of microscopy and image-analysis tools. Her historically oriented work explored how organismic form has been imaged and imagined in 19^th-20^th century biology, art, and architecture. Uniting her projects more broadly are interests in the relationship between making and knowing and how media, aesthetics, and spaces of encounter have historically defined art and science. During her Ph.D. studies Beatrice was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Harvard Presidential Scholar.

Beatrice is currently a Provost’s STEM Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University.

Lineage domains and cytoskeletal cables organize a cellular square grid in a crustacean. Beatrice L. Steinert, Leo Blondel, Chandrashekar Kuyyamudi, Evangelia Stamataki, Anastasios Pavlopoulos, and Cassandra G. Extavour bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.31.673345 (2025).

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• How shrimp embryos set up an epithelial checkerboard, down and across

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Mechanical mechanisms of morphogenesis as potential substrates for evolutionary change. Suhrid Ghosh, Chandrashekar Kuyyamudi, Beatrice Steinert and Cassandra G. Extavour Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 175:103645 (2025). [PubMed]

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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

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. “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.

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

Exhibitions

Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, NY / 2022

Science New Wave Film Festival, Cambridge, MA / 2021-22

Visual Science: The Art of Research, Harvard CHSI Gallery, Cambridge, MA / 2019 (research assistant)

Potters and Printmakers, Russell Janis Gallery, Brooklyn, NY / 2017

Wonder: Natural Lab 80th Anniversary, RISD Nature Lab, Providence, RI / 2017

Visual Media in Embryology, MBL History Project digital exhibit / 2017 (curator)

Edmund Beecher Wilson, MBL History Project digital exhibit / 2016 (co-curator)

STEAMshow, Brown University Science Center, Providence, RI / 2014

Blog Posts

“The Past, Present, and Future of Cell Lineage Studies,” Embryo Journal Club Blog: Old Problems, New Solutions, 2018.

“Drawing Embryos, Seeing Development,” The Node: The Community Site for and by Developmental Biologists, 2016.