The award winners were announced at the 2021 BIRU Research Celebration on 27 November. This year, we held the event via Zoom as an in-person event was not possible. Attendees had the opportunity to see a slide-show of all of the images prior to the prize-giving. A video of the prize-giving can be seen below.
The winner of each category received a mounted copy of their image (high quality print mounted on ArtMount), a bottle of Goldie sparkling chardonnay and a Microscopy for Dummies book (courtesy of Carl Zeiss NZ). Those who received Highly Commended awards received a bottle of Goldie syrah. In one case, a Microscopy for Dummies book was provided instead.
The category winners are shown below. You can access the Highly Commended and Special Mention awards using the links below. We congratulate all of our award recipients on their outstanding efforts in what has been a very difficult year.
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'Human monocyte-derived dendritic cells and T cells migrating in a co-culture to a CCL19 gradient.'
The time-lapse video (see below) is showing the migration response of mDCs (red) and T cells (green) in co-culture up to 6 hours after 100 ng CCL19 was added to an under-agar assay.
'Neuronal tentacles'
Dissociated hippocampal neuron transfected with mApple and imaged using fluorescence on a Nikon Eclipse TiE-invert (10x objective), pseudo-coloured using Fiji software.
