1998 Photomicrography Competition

Martin Scott is a consultant in scientific imaging technology. The former director of Scientific Imaging Markets at the Eastman Kodak Company, he also lectured extensively on photomicrography. He is a past president of the Biological Photographic Association and a member of several microscopical societies.

Simon Watkins is Director of the Center for Biological Imaging and an associate professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of Pittsburgh. His post-doctoral training was at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School. He is a member of the Royal College of Pathologists and is the author of more than 140 publications.

James Stautzenberger is assistant director of the Materials Engineering Institute for ASM International. he is a graduate of DeVry Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Operations, and is certified at the Fellow level (CFPIM) through APICS—The Educational Society of Resource Management. He was also an examiner for the Texas Quality Award, a state award based on Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Colin Izzard is a professor of biological sciences at the State University of New York at Albany. He is also director of the short course, Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences, given yearly at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. He has studied extensively the roles of cell adhesion and contractility in cell motility, using a wide range of light microscope methods, photomicrography, cinematography and videomicroscopy. He is renowned for his development of Interference Reflection Microscopy to study cell adhesion in live cells.