2021 Small World in Motion Competition

Nurse cells (cyan) contract and shrink in response to myosin waves (red) as they transport their contents to the egg cell in a fruit fly egg chamber.

Dr. Jasmin Imran Alsous Jonathan Jackson, Adam Martin

Affiliation

Simons Foundation Flatiron Institute
Center for Computational Biology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Technique

Confocal

Magnifaction

40X (Objective Lens Magnification)