FBI Image Contest 2024
The France-BioImaging Image Contest is back for its 6th edition!
This image contest is open to all within the imaging community: core facility staff and users, R&D labs teams and co-workers, students… Submit your best microscopy images for a chance to showcase your skills, research and creativity to the French bioimaging community and beyond, allowing people to see the visual appeal of the life sciences. Images from the contest will be featured on France-BioImaging communication tools, online and in print.
France-BioImaging and all the French community aims to develop and promote innovative imaging technologies and methods. But microscopy images can also take an artistic, creative look and make the invisible world beautiful.
We are all eager to see your work !
Here’s the winning images
1st Place: Vanessa WEICHSELBERGER, Pierre-François LENNE’s Team, IBDM
“Rays of Repetitive Beauty”
Marine plant collected from the Mediterranean Sea. Actin stained with phalloidin.
2-photon imaging
2nd Place: Dalia EL ARAWI, Pierre-François LENNE’s Team, IBDM
“Gastrula Nebula”
Confocal image of a murine embryonic organoid illustrating the collective migration of cells on a surface coated with laminin. Actin filaments, labelled with phalloidin, and nuclei, stained with Hoechst, reveal detailed cellular architecture and remarkably structured tissue organisation.
Zeiss LSM 880 Confocal Microscopy
3rd Place: Frédéric FERCOQ, Parasites and Free-living Protists team, National Museum of Natural History
“Filarian explosion”
Internal architecture of Litomosoides sigmodontis, a parasitic nematode used as a model to better understand filarial infections. Subjected to strong internal pressure to maintain its structure, this nematode suffered a rupture of its cuticle during handling, resulting in the expulsion of certain organs, including the ovary and intestine. The cytoskeleton appears in orange, and the DNA in cyan.
Confocal Microscopy
Explore all the images submitted here
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Marcio Marim • September 10, 2024