Visualisation and analysis winner and trophy winner
Confocal laser scanning microscopy winner
Vithika Suri and Jinny Yoon,
Department of Anatomy with Radiology
School of Medical Sciences
A whole-mount section of an organotypic hippocampal slice cultured for 14 days.
Shown in the image is the CA3 area of the hippocampus.
Green (Alexa488) represents Connexin43 (gap junction protein), the red (Alexa568)
represents MAP2 (neuronal marker), and the blue (Cy5) represents glial fibrilary
astrocytic protein (astrocytic marker).
Imaged on the Liggins Zeiss LSM 510
META confocal microscope.
Click on thumbnail image to see larger version. See
Jinny receiving her prize on behalf of herself and Vithika.
Light microscopy winner
Dr Jacqueline Chua
Department of Optometry and Vision Science
Faculty of Science
Amino acid staining through mouse retinal cells. The red channel is positive
for glutamate, green channel for GABA and blue channel for glycine. The mouse tissue
was cut horizontally and thinly focusing on the inner nuclear layers.
Imaged on the BIRU's Leica DMR light microscope.
See Jacqueline receiving her
prize.
View the three Highly commended images.
Transmission electron microscopy winner
Linda Graham
LabPLUS
Human skeletal muscle
Accidentally taken while changing magnifications! Hence double or it may even be
triple exposure.
Imaged on the BIRU's Tecnai G2 Spirit TWIN TEM.
See Linda receiving her
prize.
