Blair Lyons

Allen Institute

Simulation Software Design Engineer

Simularium

Led experimental project to make computational biology simulations more accessible, interactive, and visual.

Comparing simulations of actin filament compression reveals tradeoff between computational cost and capturing supertwist

microPublication Biology 2025

The Simularium Viewer: an interactive online tool for sharing spatiotemporal biological models

Nature Methods 2022

The dawn of interoperating spatial models in cell biology

Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2022

Infrastructure for Visualizing Biological Simulations in the Context of Whole Cells

Talk at Biophysical Society Annual Meeting 2020

MiTOSSis

Designed and developed VR game to encourage users to interact with 3D microscopy data.

After Dark: Designed by Data

Exploratorium Exhibit 2019

Virtual Reality Exhibit

Pacific Science Center 2018

Dynamoid

Co-Founder

C O S M Worlds Within Worlds

Led development on VR and desktop app for progressively zooming into scientific datasets.

2nd Place, AT&T VR/AR Challenge

AT&T Developer Summit & Hackathon,
Consumer Electronics Show 2017

Allen Biology

Collaborated with Vulcan and UW professors to implement a neuron simulator for education.

M.S. Biomedical Visualization 2011

University of Illinois
at Chicago

B.S. Biochemistry 2009

Virginia Tech

blair AT
blairlyons DOT com

Seattle, WA