Highly commended awards - 2013

Dedeepya Uppalapati

School of Pharmacy

Liquid crystals under polarised light (20x)

Equipment: Leica DMR light microscope

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Kazuhide Okuda

Department of Molecular Medicine & Pathology

Fish meeting
Live imaging of Tg(lyve1:DsRed2;kdrl:EGFP) double transgenic zebrafish line and Tg(lyve1:DsRed2) single transgenic zebrafish line at 7 days post fertilisation. EGFP marks the blood vasculature while DsRed2 marks veins and lymphatic vessels.

Equipment: Leica MZ16 FA Fluorescence Stereomicroscope

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Glenn Bell

Department of Molecular Medicine & Pathology

Three alive, three dead

3D-rendering of a z-stack taken through MCF-7 breast cancer cells treated with an anti-cancer agent delivered by a cell-penetrating peptide (red) and stained with Hoechst (blue) and cell-tracker (green).

Equipment: Zeiss LSM 710 confocal microscope

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Irene Vorontsova
Department of Optometry and Vision Science

Axial section of a P21 rat lens labelled with WGA (red) and the Na+K+ Cl- Cotransporter (NKCC1) (green).

Equipment: Leica TCS SP2 confocal microscope.

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Kathleen Gilbert

Department of Anatomy with Radiology/Auckland MRI Group

3D heart movement visualisation

Equipment: Siemens 3T MRI scanner

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Lakshini Mendis & Gus Grey

Department of Anatomy with Radiology/Department of Physiology

Lipids in the adult human hippocampus
This image was acquired using Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption and Ionisation (MALDI) imaging. MALDI imaging enables one to visualise the distribution of any ion in the acquired mass spectrum, in the tissue of interest. This image was acquired at a 100 µm resolution, and the three different distributions were overlaid and pseudo-coloured using Photoshop.

Equipment: Applied Biosystems Voyager DE Pro MALDI-TOF; Adobe Photoshop

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Denis Simonov

Department of Molecular Medicine & Pathology

“Change and continuity”

Top image: thin sectioned UPEC 536 cell pellet visualised with 120Kv Tecnai G2 Spirit Twin TEM. Bottom image: “Creation of Adam”, Michelangelo Buonarroti, circa 1511.

Equipment: Tecnai G2 Spirit Twin transmission electron microscope

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