Winners of inaugural Dunn School Bioimaging Awards announced
The winners of the Dunn School Bioimaging Facility Awards 2015 have been announced with the winning images featuring in a departmental calendar available from January 2016.
Dr Alan Wainman, Light Microscopy Facility Manager, and Dr Errin Johnson, Electron Microscopy Facility Manager, shortlisted the images for the inaugural awards, with the final selection being made by Professor Chris Norbury.
Dr Johnson said: “The quality of images was outstanding and we’re looking forward to another great year of bioimaging in 2016!”
The panel announced the winners as:
- For Light Microscopy: runner-up Johanna Pott (Maloy lab) for her artistic confocal image of mouse mid-colon and winner Ita Costello (Robertson-Bikoff lab) for her beautiful confocal image of a mouse embryo.
- For Electron Microscopy: runner up Saroj Saurya (Raff lab) for her TEM image of a massive mitochondrion from Drosophila tissue and winners Mirka Woermann and Rachel Exley (Tang lab), together with Anna Pielach and Errin Johnson (Bioimaging Facility), for their SEM image of Neisseria cinerea ‘walking’ an epithelial cell ‘tightrope’.
