mmc2019 Prize Winners
Poster Prizes
Life Sciences
1st Prize
Michaela Conley, MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Calicivirus VP2 Forms a Portal-like Assembly Following Receptor Engagement
2nd Prize
Ida Emilie Steinmark, King’s College London, Imaging Mitochondrial Viscosity using Flourescent Molecular Rotors and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy
Engineering and Physical Sciences
1st Prize
Matt Lindley, University of Manchester, Studying Cobalt-based Catalysts Promoted with Manganese ising In-situ Gas Cell Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
2nd Prize
Visweswara Gudla, University of Manchester, Multiscale Correlative Characterisation of Environmentally Induced Crack Initiation, Propagation and Failure in a High Strength Aluminium Alloy
EMAG
1st Prize
Laura Wheatcroft, University of Sheffield, Studying Degradation Mechanisms of High Voltage Li-Ion Batteries using He-ion Microscopy and Ne Secondary Ion Mass Spectometry
EMAG Flash Talk
1st Prize
Martha Ilet, University of Leeds, Imaging and Characterisation of Nanoparticle Coatings and Dispersion
SPM
1st Prize
William Foster, Durham University, Tracking the Molecular Organisation of Water and Alcohol Mixtures at Hydrophobic Solid Interfaces
2nd Prize
Oliver Gordon, University of Nottingham, Recognising Multiple Scanning Probe Tip States in Real Time with Concolutional Neural Network Ensembles
Talk Prizes
EMAG
1st Prize Colum O’Leary, University of Oxford, Electron Ptychography using Fast Binary 4D STEM Data
2nd Prize Jack Brennan, University of Glasgow, The Impact of Corrosion and Chemical Modification of Silver Nanoparticle Assemblies on their Plasmonic Functionality Studied by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
Early Career Pre-Congress Symposium
1st Prize – Joint Winners
Andrew Lee, University of Leeds, Augmenting high speed atomic force microscopy with DNA nanostructures to study biomolecular processes
Laura Clark, University of Glasgow, Differential Phase Contrast STEM using Pixelated Detectors: Going Beyond the Rigid Disk Shift Model
RMS Scientific Imaging Competition - Winners and Runners-up by Category
1st Place Electron Microscopy - Life Sciences
Aberrant RBC in severely debilitating neurological disease
Alberto Foglia
2nd Place Electron Microscopy - Life Sciences
Vacuoles in Cell Culture fixed with 2.5% Glutaraldehyde and embedded in Epon
Elisabeth Schraner
1st Place Electron Microscopy - Physical Sciences
Cuboidal Ni3Al precipitates (edge length ~400 nm) in a Ni-based single-crystal superalloy. These precipitates are the source of the outstanding strength of superalloys at high temperatures, enabling the operation of turbine blades in the extreme environments within jet engines. The sample (provided by BIAM) was etched to reveal the precipitates.
Alessandro Piglione
2nd Place Electron Microscopy - Physical Sciences
The modern world needs novel ways to harvest energy. Pictured is a niobium based, nanostructured photocatalyst which is investigated for production of hydrogen by solar energy. A one-step synthesis with trace amounts of titanium yields eye-catching morphologies that are imaged with a scanning electron microscope and subsequently colorized.
Thomas Gänsler
1st Place Light Microscopy - Life Sciences
A fixed Octopus bimaculoides embryo that was detached from its yolk. Red is labelling an actin cytoskeleton (phalloidin) that is important for various cellular processes, magenta - extracellular matrix glycoprotein needed for cells to properly migrate and attach (fibronectin) and green is labelling a protein pax3, that is an important driver of nervous system development. Octopus is an invertebrate that has evolved a complex nervous system, which is anatomically very different from ours. However, it displays a variety of similar features, such as short and long term memory. Therefore, comparing development of octopus and vertebrate animal nervous system has a potential of unravelling the basic principles of a complex nervous system emergence. The tiled image was acquired using the confocal Zeiss microscope (710) during the Embryology course 2018 in the MBL in Woods Hole and animals were supplied by Carrie Albertin. The scale bar on the bottom left corner corresponds to 0.5 mm.
Martyna Lukoseviciute
2nd Place Light Microscopy - Life Sciences
Four small brain cells (in green) exhibit a wide variety of responses to the concentrated microdots of the protein Netrin-1 (red) they are growing on - some grow bristles or long sheet-like processes, while others shrink or avoid it entirely. A heavily branched mature cell known as an "astrocyte" lurks in the corner.
Daryan Chitsaz
1st Place Light Microscopy - Physical Sciences
Image of a Paracetamol Crystal grown onto a glass slide. Due to the polarised light used different colours are exhibited in the crystal structure. The image was compiled using 56 individual frames at 400x magnification.
Alexandru Moldovan
2nd Place Light Microscopy - Physical Sciences
This photomicrograph shows a 6 rayed star of golden rutile needles radiating from a black ilmenite core beautifully preserved in smoky quartz. The horizontal field of view is 18mm.
Nathan Renfro
1st Place Other
This compound eye of a tropical orchid bee (Euglossa imperialis) is composed of thousands of individual facets. Here, micro-CT reveals the lens at the surface of every facet, as well as each underlying light guide and photoreceptor. Orchid bees have evolved large eyes that allow them to use vision to navigate through dim, cluttered tropical forests. Imaged in the I13-2 beamline at the Diamond Light Source.
Gavin Taylor
1st Place Scanning Probe Microscopy
Metal-organic polymer nanoribbon electrically contacted by a Few-Layer Graphene (FLG) sheet. The extraordinary electrical and mechanical behavior of graphene make it an ideal material to contact nano-objects. Note as well the different bending rigidities of the FLG sheet according to the different number of graphene layers covering the nanoribbon.
Pablo Ares
2nd Place Scanning Probe Microscopy
Scattering-Scanning Near field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) image of a Au nanostructure. Image shows light absorption at 966 cm-1.
Héctor Corte-León
People's Choice
The micrograph depicts several fibres pushed out of a SiC/SiC Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC's) on the unpolished side of the material - thus resembling skyscraper-like features of an abandoned city amidst long deserted roads. Fibres are pushed out in tows - i.e. a collection or bundle of fibres oriented in one direction. The shallow depth-of-field was purposefully chosen so as to mimic far-distances in the horizon. The instrument used was a Zeiss EVO with a probe current of 2nA and accelerating voltage of 10KeV.
Robin De Meyere
1st Place, Electron Microscopy - Life Sciences
Alberto Foglia
Red Blood Cells in Neuroacanthocytosis
2nd Place, Electron Microscopy - Life Sciences
Elisabeth Schraner, University of Zurich
Balloons
1st Place, Electron Microscopy - Physical Sciences
Alessandro Piglione, Imperial College London
The Building Blocks of Jet Engines
2nd Place, Electron Microscopy - Physical Sciences
Thomas Gänsler, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
A Blooming New World
1st Place, Light Microscopy - Life Sciences
Martyna Lukoseviciute, University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Understanding the Octopus Embryo
2nd Place, Light Microscopy - Life Sciences
Daryan Chitsaz, Montreal Neurological Institute
Mixed Messages from Microdots
1st Place, Light Microscopy - Physical Sciences
Alexandru Moldovan, University of Leeds
Crystal River
2nd Place, Light Microscopy - Physical Sciences
Nathan Renfro, Gemological Institute of America
Rutile Star in Smoky Quartz
1st Place, Other
Gavin Taylor, Regular Discovery
Outside and Inside a Compound Eye
1st Place, Scanning Probe Microscopy
Pablo Ares, University of Manchester
Graphene Connecting the World
2nd Place, Scanning Probe Microscopy
Héctor Corte-León, National Physical Laboratory
Quantum
1st Place, Short Video
Rachel Sammons, University of Birmingham
Rotifer Vortices
2nd Place, Short Video
Charlotte Pain, Oxford Brookes University
The Highways and Byways of the Plant Cell
People's Choice - voted through the congress app
Robin De Meyere, University of Oxford
Fibre Pushouts on a SiC / SiC Composite