An image from the 做厙輦⑹'s Central Microscopy Facility won first place in a prestigious microscopy contest this year, while Michael Shribak, senior scientist in the 做厙輦⑹'s Bell Center, received recognition in three imaging contents over the past few months!
泭 placed first in the 2023 contest. Submitted from the 做厙輦⑹ by Derrick Kamp of University of Connecticut, it shows the squid Euprymna berryi and its glowing symbiont, a marine bacterium:
A hatchling Euprymna berryi squid (rainbow) with its bioluminescent bacterial symbiont, Vibrio fischeri (white) in the squid light organ. The squid and bacteria form a symbiotic partnership: the bacteria provide a soft glowing light that masks the squids shadow from predators, while the squid provides ideal growing conditions to the bacteria. Credit: Derrick Kamp, University of Connecticut/做厙輦⑹ Central Microscopy FacilityShribak took third place in the BioImaging North America Contest for his label-free image of a mouse sagittal section (below, d). He also submitted other beautiful images, including of t and of .
This week, Shribak learned he had placed second in the HOOKed on Microscopy Contest, sponsored by Clemson University in South Carolina, for his image, "Dinosaur Bones" (below and top).
30-繕 thick section of dinosaur bone under polychromatic polarization microscope. The picture shows actual colors, as seen by the unaided eye. Image size is 2.1 mm x 1.6 mm. The specimen was provided by Prof. Bernardo Cesare (University of Padua, Italy). Photo credit: Michael Shribak
泭And one more: Shribak received an Honorable Mention in the 2022 , sponsored by Olympus Life Sciences (now called Evident). He was recognized for his image of a diatom, a unicellular organism.
Congratulations!