School of Medical Sciences


Biomedical Imaging Research Unit image competition - 2012

Light microscopy winner and trophy winner


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Irina Rudykh & Rikus Botha
Department of Physiology

Differentiated 3T3-L1 cells ( accumulation of intracellular lipid droplets in adipocytes).

The image was acquired on a Leica inverted microscope with Leica DFC camera.

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See Irina and Rikus with their prizes.

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Confocal microscopy winner


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Chez Alice Viall
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Press the buttons - 3D-rendering of a z-stack taken through JAR choriocarcinoma cells stained with Hoechst, cell-tracker red and cell mask far red (green).

Imaged on the Zeiss LSM 710 confocal microscope.

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See Olivia collecting the prize on behalf of Chez.

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Electron microscopy winner


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Erica (Ying-Shan) Chen
Department of Ophthalmology

Drug release from PLGA nanoparticles due to polymer erosion and pore formation after three days in release media.

Imaged on the Philips XL30S FEG scanning electron microscope.

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See Erica receiving her prize.

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Visualisation and analysis winner


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Chris Hall
Department of Molecular Medicine & Pathology

Tracked neutrophils migrating (over a 7 hour period) towards a wound (left end of image) in the tail of a live transgenic zebrafish possessing fluorescent neutrophils. The tracks are colour-coded (hot colours are near and cold ones far.with respect to the z-axis). Image analysis done using Volocity.

Equipment: Olympus Live Cell Imaging Confocal Microscope plus Volocity software

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