SMS 2022 Image Competition
Imaging in Action
Well done to Dr Kseniia Bondarenko, a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh, for their winning entry of ‘Goblinoscope’. Kseniia won the £50 prize
Winner: Goblinscope
Although not all facilities allow this, I bring my inner goblin with me for imaging whenever I can. That particular time happened on October 31, 2022, when some of my Toxoplasma parasites decided to glow red, proudly (and eerily) displaying their flashy mutations! So pretty that they lit up the tumultuous goblin soul, inspiring for an evening of breathtaking images. Optics: Olympus CKX 53 fluorescent inverted microscope. Model organism: Night goblin from the Warhammer universe. Costume: made by myself in between imaging sessions, which we all know by the name of life. Let me know if you’d like to see the full lab goblin story!
Competition Entries
1. Goblinscope
Dr Kseniia Bondarenko, University of Edinburgh
Although not all facilities allow this, I bring my inner goblin with me for imaging whenever I can. That particular time happened on October 31, 2022, when some of my Toxoplasma parasites decided to glow red, proudly (and eerily) displaying their flashy mutations! So pretty that they lit up the tumultuous goblin soul, inspiring for an evening of breathtaking images. Optics: Olympus CKX 53 fluorescent inverted microscope. Model organism: Night goblin from the Warhammer universe. Costume: made by myself in between imaging sessions, which we all know by the name of life. Let me know if you’d like to see the full lab goblin story!
2. Going Through Phases
Dr Charlotte Buckley, University of Strathclyde
Image taken of different modes of a bessel beam created using an SLM in a standard SPIM lightsheet setup. This was taken as part of the initial experiment setup, where we were deciding what mode to use. The homebuilt setup was built at the University of Durham, and we were using using a Bessel beam to very accurately target specific cells in a 3dpf zebrafish to ablate those cells without injuring any surrounding tissue. The lightsheet is incredibly adaptable, allowing changes such as integration of the bessel beam through the imaging objective to adapt the experiment to what you need.
3. The Lab's Secret Helper
Cian Woodsend, University of Strathclyde
Sometimes, during the dead of night when everyone’s asleep, a certain someone can be found hard at work in the lab!
4. A Gridded Drop
Dr Leandro Lemgruber, University of Glasgow
Electron microscopy grids arranged in a drop of buffer during a step of immuno staining protocol.
5. The TEM of Decisionmaking
Dr Peggy Paschke, CRUK Beatson Institute
Before using the grids for the Cryos the grids are checked on the JEM-FV200.
6. Microscopy on Tiptoes
Dr Simona Buracco, CRUK Beatson Institute
The Queen of BAIR on her tiptoes while using a microscope in the Beatson
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