mmc2019 Prize Winners

Poster Prizes

Life Sciences

1^st Prize
Michaela Conley, MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Calicivirus VP2 Forms a Portal-like Assembly Following Receptor Engagement

2^nd Prize
Ida Emilie Steinmark, King’s College London, Imaging Mitochondrial Viscosity using Flourescent Molecular Rotors and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy

Engineering and Physical Sciences

1^st Prize
Matt Lindley, University of Manchester, Studying Cobalt-based Catalysts Promoted with Manganese ising In-situ Gas Cell Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

2^nd Prize
Visweswara Gudla, University of Manchester, Multiscale Correlative Characterisation of Environmentally Induced Crack Initiation, Propagation and Failure in a High Strength Aluminium Alloy

EMAG

1^st 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

1^st Prize
Martha Ilet, University of Leeds, Imaging and Characterisation of Nanoparticle Coatings and Dispersion

SPM

1^st Prize
William Foster, Durham University, Tracking the Molecular Organisation of Water and Alcohol Mixtures at Hydrophobic Solid Interfaces

2^nd Prize
Oliver Gordon, University of Nottingham, Recognising Multiple Scanning Probe Tip States in Real Time with Concolutional Neural Network Ensembles

Talk Prizes

EMAG

1^st Prize Colum O’Leary, University of Oxford, Electron Ptychography using Fast Binary 4D STEM Data

2^nd 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

1^st 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

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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