Biomedical Imaging Research Unit

Highly commended and special awards - 2019

The following awards were presented at the BIRU end of year Research Celebration on Wednesday 27 November 2019. Congratulations to all of those who received awards and thanks to all who participated this year.

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Confocal microscopy - highly commended


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Nandini Bavana

Dept of Physiology

Distribution of Aquaporin 1 water channel in the rat lens epithelium


Imaged on the BIRU Olympus FV1000 BX61 confocal microscope

Confocal microscopy - special mention


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Nandini Bavana

Dept of Physiology

A multi area stitched image of rat lens axial section

During multi area scan imaging when the image is left on an angle a beautiful image came out from an error... 

Imaged on the BIRU Olympus FV1000 BX61 confocal microscope
 

Visualisation and analysis - highly commended


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 Molly Abraham

Department of Physiology

“Circle of friendship”
 
Live unstained image of cultured hippocampal neurons taken with the Nanolive 3D Cell Explorer at 60x magnification
 

Visualisation and analysis - highly commended


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Victor Dieriks

Dept. Anatomy and Medical Imaging - Centre for Brain Research

“Hungry Boys”

Imaged on the Nikon BioStation live cell imaging system

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Electron microscopy - highly commended


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Denis Simonov

School of Biological Sciences & Department of Surgery

A human lymph exosome

Negative staining

Imaged using the FEI Tecnai T12 transmission electron microscope - magnifcation x150,000
 

Electron microscopy - special mention - Patriot award


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Hugh Glossop

School of Chemical Sciences

Nano-North Island 

Gold nano-particles and peptides aggregated into a familiar shape

Light microscopy - special mention - Patriot award


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Judy Loh, Jane McGhee and Trevor Sherwin

Department of Ophthalmology

‘Which came first, the kiwi or the egg?’

Immunolabelling of a diseased mucosal sample with C3B9 (red) and DAPI stain