There's a very cool exhibition going on at the American Museum of Natural History in New York called "Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence". It runs there until January 2013 when it will move to the Field Museum in Chicago, and in 2014 will move on to the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.
Besides the general biology connection making it interesting to this group, the exhibition covers the discovery and use of GFP and other fluorescent proteins and their use in research.
They have also produced an impressive (free) iPad app, which I just spent a delightful hour or so going through. The app has an entire section ("Altered Light") on GFP and fluorescence, including a number of images of florescent proteins being used in biology. Highly recommended.
The museum show:
An NYT review of the show:
And the iPad app:
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