FBI Image Contest 2017 Results

Dear colleagues, dear FBI community,

The National Coordination and Industry Board are proud to announce that the winners of the FBI Image Contest 2017 are:

1. Marie Irondelle – PiCT Institut Curie with “Biology’s Little Venice”

2. Orestis Faklaris – Institut Jacques Monod – ImagoSeine with “The Tree of Life”

The Tree of Life © Orestis Faklaris, Nicolas Chevalier – Institut Jacques Monod
Ultramicroscope – light sheet microscopy

3D z-stack projection of transparised chicken embryo stomach. Label betaIII-tubulin – Alexa488.

3. Clémence Simon – UMR 8576 CNRS/Université Lille 1 with “When Chemistry Transcends Lignin”

Quand la chimie transcende la lignine ! 1 © Clémence Simon, Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, UMR8576
Microscopie confocale, MIP, BLISS

Application de la stratégie de double réaction chimique BLISS aux unités p-hydroxyphényle et guaïaicyle de la lignine sur coupe de racine de lin. Observation du double marquage (+ autofluorescence) par microscopie confocale et représentation par projection maximale d’intensité. Taille de l’image : 510 x 510 microns.

FBI Industry Committee Special Prize: Nathanaël Prunet – California Institute of Technology with “Arabidopsis Inflorescence”

Arabidopsis inflorescence 1 © Nathanaël Prunet, Caltech, Meyerowitz lab
Confocal microscopy

This is a live Arabidopsis inflorescence with young flower buds developing at the periphery. Cell walls have been stained with propidium iodide (grey). Fluorescent reporters were used to monitor the expression of the APETALA3 (AP3, green) and SUPERMAN (SUP, red) genes. AP3 is required for the development of stamens (the male organs), while SUP establishes the boundary between the male and female part of the flower. This picture was acquired using live confocal imaging, which allows us to describe the expression of several genes in both space and time, in the same live biological samples, with a precise cellular resolution. It finally allows us to understand a question that has been elusive for 25 years: how the male/female boundary is established during the formation of the flower. My research aims at understanding how flower buds are patterned as they form.

All Entries:

Quand la fibre rencontre les FONs © Jonathan Daniel, ISM & Etienne Gontier, Bordeaux Imaging Center (BIC)

Turquoise and Coral © Dario Donnarumma, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb UMR 5221 CNRS-UM

Xmas Tree (NSIM in 2 colors) ® Lucie Sengmanivong, Olga Iuliano, B. Goud Lab, UMR 144, Institut Curie, Paris

Hairy Scan © Sébastien Mailfert, CIML

Glial cells in rat brain © Françoise Geffroy, CEA-DRF-NeuroSpin-UNIRS, Midas Team

Sunset on the mangrove © Mathieu P. Dailly, CMAS

Fertility © Mailfert Sébastien & Mossadegh-Keller Noushin – CIML

Les dents de la mer © Hugues Lelouard, Mathieu Fallet & Mailfert Sébastien – CIML

La petite Venise de la biologie © Carine Rossé, Emilie Lagoutte & Marie Irondelle, Institut Curie

Une petite Sirène © Lucie Sengmanivong, Frederik Verweij, PhD, G.Raposo team, UMR 144, Institut Curie, Paris

Fly’s wings © Morgane Rabineau, Inserm

The Black Swan © Orestis Faklaris, Nicolas Chevalier – Institut Jacques Monod

Fertility 3 © Mailfert Sébastien & Mossadegh-Keller Noushin – CIML

Nanoparticles in brain tumor vessels © Françoise Geffroy, CEA-DRF-NeuroSpin-UNIRS, Midas Team

Amphore © Mailfert Sébastien & Rossignol Rafaëlle – CIML

Quand la chimie transcende la lignine ! 2 © Clémence Simon, Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, UMR8576

Arabidopsis inflorescence 2 © Nathanaël Prunet, Caltech, Meyerowitz lab

Nano-Horse © Jonathan Daniel, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires

Vers quelle direction aller… © Lucie Sengmanivong, Olga Iuliano, B. Goud Lab, UMR 144, Institut Curie, Paris

3D multicellular spheroids-the new world for discoveries on cancer research © Filippo Piccinini, IRST

Going with the flow © Jérémie Teillon, INSERM U1034

L’éléphant tricéphale © Lucie Sengmanivong, Laure Coquand, A. Baffet Lab, UMR 144, Institut Curie, Paris

Hanging on by a thread © Debora Olivier, LOB, Ecole Polytechnique for the use of the GE Deltavision OMX SR

Arabidopsis inflorescence 4 © Nathanaël Prunet, Caltech, Meyerowitz lab

Actin fireworks© Patrice Mascalchi, Bordeaux Imaging Center and Frédéric Saltel, INSERM U-1053, University of Bordeaux

Quand la chimie transcende la lignine ! 1 © Clémence Simon, Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, UMR8576

The Embryo Forest 2 © Aude Nommick, IBDM – Marseille University

Warhol’s Style SHG Muscle © Sébastien Marais, Bordeaux Imaging Center

J’y ai mis tout mon cœur ! © Marcello Delfini, CIML CNRS-INSERM-AMU

Virtuous Circle © Pierre-Olivier Strale, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience

Wood smoking muscle © Orestis Faklaris, Marianne Gervais-Taurel, Institut Jacques Monod

Cicata © Mailfert Sébastien – CIML

Tree of Life © Mailfert Sébastien & Rossignol Rafaëlle – CIML

What is behind the heart curtain © Xavier Baudin, Véronique Monnier, Institut Jacques Monod

Mickey Mouse © Lucie Sengmanivong, Laure Coquand, A. Baffet Lab, UMR 144, Institut Curie, Paris

The Tree of Life © Orestis Faklaris, Nicolas Chevalier – Institut Jacques Monod

The Embryo Forest © Aude Nommick, IBDM – Marseille University

Cannot see the nanorods for the blood cells © Marie Held, Biochemistry, University of Liverpool, Levy Lab

Arabidopsis inflorescence 1 © Nathanaël Prunet, Caltech, Meyerowitz lab

Poisson d’avril © Mailfert Sébastien & Rossignol Rafaëlle – CIML

Arabidopsis inflorescence 3 © Nathanaël Prunet, Caltech, Meyerowitz lab

FBI Logo © Mailfert Sébastien & Raphalen Morgane – CIML

Monkey’s Head © Laurence Dubreil-APEX-UMR703 PAnTher INRA Oniris

Microglia’s attack! © Françoise Geffroy, CEA-DRF-NeuroSpin-UNIRS, Midas Team

Cat © Mailfert Sébastien & Rossignol Rafaëlle – CIML

Easter Egg © Mailfert Sébastien & Rossignol Rafaëlle – CIML

Marvellous sea creature © Eve Gazave & Nicolas Rabet, Institut Jacques Monod-CNRS

Scream © Anna Smirnova, University of Strasbourg – GMGM

L’arbre de régéneration © Lucie Sengmanivong, Olga Iuliano, B. Goud Lab, UMR 144, Institut Curie, Paris

Nano Maze © Mathieu P. Dailly, CMAS

Mice Egg © Mailfert Sébastien – CIML-CNRS-Inserm-AMU

Star Pigments © Aude Nommick, IBDM – Marseille University

Tracheids and surrounding tissues in Arabidopsis thaliana © Corrado Viotti, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS, Strasbourg – P. Genschik Lab

Fly with a broken face © Mathieu P. Dailly, CMAS

Superman flower © Nathanaël Prunet, Caltech, Meyerowitz lab

Growth can shorten distances © Valeria Davi, ImagoSeine – Institut Jacques Monod – CNRS – Paris

Hypnoblue © Anna Smirnova, University of Strasbourg – GMGM

Tumour of Fire © Marcello Delfini & Mathieu Fallet – CIML CNRS-INSERM-AMU

Flower Time © Anna Smirnova, University of Strasbourg – GMGM

Thank you to all the participants for their great contributions:

• Dario Donnarumma, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb UMR 5221 CNRS-UM
• Filippo Piccinini, IRST
• Aude Nommick, IBDM – Marseille University
• Sébastien Marais, Bordeaux Imaging Center
• Marie Held, Biochemistry, University of Liverpool, Levy Lab
• Patrice Mascalchi, Bordeaux Imaging Center and Frédéric Saltel, INSERM U-1053, University of Bordeaux
• Corrado Viotti, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS, Strasbourg – P. Genschik Lab
• Marcello Delfini & Mathieu Fallet, CIML CNRS-INSERM-AMU
•  Jonathan Daniel, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires
• Laurence Dubreil, APEX-UMR703 PAnTher INRA Oniris
• Pierre-Olivier Strale, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience
• Clémence Simon, Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, UMR8576
• Jérémie Teillon, INSERM U1034
• Morgane Rabineau, Inserm
• Eve Gazave & Nicolas Rabet, Institut Jacques Monod-CNRS
• Nathanaël Prunet, Caltech, Meyerowitz lab
• Françoise Geffroy, CEA-DRF-NeuroSpin-UNIRS, Midas Team
• Valeria Davi, ImagoSeine – Institut Jacques Monod – CNRS
• Anna Smirnova, University of Strasbourg – GMGM
• Debora Olivier, Institut Pasteur
• Orestis Faklaris, Institut Jacques Monod
• Xavier Baudin, Institut Jacques Monod
• Mathieu P. Dailly, CMAS
• Lucie Sengmanivong, UMR 144, Institut Curie, Paris
• Marie Irondelle, Institut Curie

Thank you also to the core facilities staff and heads for having forwarded the contest to their users and for providing them state of the art bioimaging.

The National Coordination