The following awards were presented at the BIRU end of year Research Celebration on Thursday 23 November 2017. Congratulations to all of those who received awards and thanks to all who participated this year.
Patching Dendrite and Cell body of cortical neuron: cortical neuron patched (using electrophysiology) at the cell body and dendrite 384um apart, and filled with fluorescent dye to visualise this neuron amongst all the others in the cortex (imaged at 40x magnification).
See Yukti receiving her prize from BIRU Director Dr Sue McGlashan!
“Cell reprogramming – transforming skin into brain”
Human neurons with long processes connecting up and communicating with each other (TuJ1 - green), while expressing a dopamine generating enzyme called AADC (red). Cell nuclei are labelled in blue. These beautiful cells were actually mature human skin only four months earlier and reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells, before being directed down the neuronal lineage and matured into neurons in the lab.
Micro Array of Macroscopic Animalcules
Microarrays are multiple 2-3mm cores of tissue assembled into a single paraffin block commonly used in tissue research to enable comparison between different specimens on a single glass microscope slide.
" Snow Flake series"
Stain precipitates, probably Uranium
See Linda receiving her prize from BIRU Director Dr Sue McGlashan!
The Killer Egg
Formation of a 3D structure arising naturally from a 2D co-culture composed of melanoma cells, stably expressing GFP, with human dermal fibroblasts, stained red for CD90. Imaged on Zeiss LSM 710 confocal microscope.
See Elisha receiving his prize from BIRU Director Dr Sue McGlashan!
Three-dimensional volume rendering of a guinea pig head acquired using micro-computed tomography (SkyScan 1172, Bruker). Some images have been sliced along the longitudinal axis of the cochlea (posteriorly-located spiral-shaped component of the inner ear) for display purposes.
A brain tumour cell image taken in BIRU using the Nanolive 3D Cell Explorer.
A spiral acquisition on an anaesthetized emperor penguin using a Toshiba clinical CT scanner. Air sacs of the respiratory system of the Emperor penguin - in vivo. Organ segmentation was done with Amira software.
