School of Medical Sciences


Biomedical Imaging Research Unit image competition - 2011

Confocal microscopy winner and trophy winner


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Elizabeth Eady, Helen Danesh Meyer, Colin Green

Department of Opthalmology

Montage of the retina, labelled with Brn3a, isolectin B4 and DAPI. Brn3a labels retinal ganglion (nerve cells), isolectin B4 blood vessels and DAPI nuclei.

The image was acquired on the Ophthalmology Olympus FV1000 confocal microscope.

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See Elizabeth receiving her prize from BIRU Director Dr Sue McGlashan.

 

View other confocal images that received highly commended awards

Light microscopy winner


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Sam Mathai, Rani Wilson and Alistair Gunn

Department of Physiology

A cell undergoing Apoptosis

Imaged on the Physiology Nikon Eclipse 80i microscope.

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See Sam and Rani with their prize.

 

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Electron microscopy winner


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Chez Viall

Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Knot tail

Imaged on the BIRU Tecnai G2 Spirit TWIN electron microscope.

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See Chez receiving her prize.

 

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Visualisation and analysis winner


Inken Kelch,

School of Biological Sciences

A full 3D blood vessel network of a lymph node (LN)

Equipment: Leica TCS 4D CLSM microscope in Prof. Ian LeGrice's lab.

Collaborators: Rod Dunbar (School of Biological Sciences), Anthony Phillips (Department of Surgery), Gib Bogle, Greg Sands (Auckland Bioengineering Institute), Dane Gerneke, and Ian LeGrice (Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Department of Physiology).

These images cannot go online at present since they are unpublished data that the owner hopes to submit in the near future. We hope to be able to link up soon to the published work.

 

See Dr Greg Sands receiving the prize on behalf of Inken!

View another image that received a highly commended award