Results from the Node–FocalPlane image competition
Posted by the Node, on 27 March 2025
To accompany the Biologists @ 100 conference, we’ve partnered with FocalPlane to bring to you an image competition. We shortlisted 15 images and asked you to vote for your favourite online. The images were also displayed in a gallery at the Biologists @ 100 for those attending the conference.
We’re now delighted to announce the results of the image competition. Congratulations to Özge Özgüç, Allan Carrillo-Baltodano and Julia Peloggia de Castro! And thank you to everyone who submitted their images to the competition. You can still view the shortlisted images on the Node. Look out for posts in FocalPlane’s ‘Featured image’ series to discover more about some of the microscopists that shared images with us in this competition.
Winner
Özge Özgüç
A ‘Cell-estial bloom’ of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) flourishes on a micropatterned island. This image presents a colony of live hiPSCs, with fluorescently labelled Lamin B delineating the nuclear lamina within each cell. Acquired with a Zeiss LSM 880 Airyscan microscope, this maximum intensity projection is enhanced with depth-coded coloring to reveal the captivating three-dimensional landscape.
First runner-up
Allan Carrillo-Baltodano
Actinotroch larva of a phoronid worm with phalloidin shown in yellow and acetylated tubulin in magenta. Imaged with a Zeiss LSM 800 at 10 x magnification.
Second runner-up
Julia Peloggia de Castro
The image depicts a zebrafish embryo at 9 hours post-fertilisation on a lateral view. Cells are stained with MitoTracker, which labels active mitochondria, and cell membranes are labelled in cyan with a EGFP transgenic membrane tag. Image was taken using a 20x objective on a spinning disk confocal microscope.
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Özge Özgüç