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Pin-ItUltrafast light sheet imaging of the actin cytoskeleton of a killer T cell (orange) engaging a cancer cell (cyan).
2014 Small World In Motion Competition
Honorable Mention
Killer T cell engaging a cancer cell
Alex Ritter Dr. Bi-Chang Chen, Dr. Wesley Legant, Dr. Liang Gao
- Affiliation
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Technique
- Light Sheet Microscopy
- Magnification
- 1000x
Honorable Mention
Aplysia (sea slug) neuron
Dr. Masha Prager-Khoutorsky
- Affiliation
- McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Technique
- Confocal
- Magnification
- 100x
Cultured Aplysia (sea slug) neuron lamella, expressing end binding protein 3 conjugated to GFP.
Honorable Mention
Leukocyte inflammation response
Ashley M. Smith
- Affiliation
- CFD Research Corporation
Huntsville, Alabama, USA
- Technique
- Fluorescence
- Magnification
- 10x
Leukocytes have the ability to roll, adhere and migrate to areas of injury in the body. Here, leukocytes were stained and flowed onto an activated endothelium in a microfluidic device. The cells can be seen moving through a 3um pore towards a chemoattractant.
Top 20
Honorable Mentions
Judges
Paul Maddox
Assistant Professor and William Burwell Harrison Fellow University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Biology
Paul S. Maddox, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor and William Burwell Harrison Fellow, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Dr. Maddox completed his Ph.D. under the mentorship of renowned cell biology microscopist E. D. Salmon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His current research interests include using light microscopy to understand chromosome and microtubule dynamics. Dr. Maddox’s experimental philosophy mandates using the light microscope to “see” results in the most quantitative manner possible. Dr. Maddox has over 19 years of experience with light microscopy and has been an instructor in light microscopy courses around the world including Europe, South America, and at the Marine Biological Labs in Woods Hole, USA. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers in his career.
