2024 IMB
Imaging & Photography Competition
Submission : 4/22 - 5/19
Exhibition and Voting : 5/23-5/29
Award Ceremony : 5/30
Life Spotted!
Each room and lab have their own beautiful stories to tell.
All you have to do is gear your lenses to take a snapshot of its flourishing life
from the tiniest cells at work to the beautiful creatures called humans like you!
Submit to one of the four categories
Looking at Life
Design and details
Design and details
e.g. Experimental images
Photographs and images of inner workings of life
Photographs and images from direct observation from experiments with minimal processing such as micrographs, growth plates, gels and pictures of experimental animals.
Example
Ovarian Garden Realm
Creator
Chi-Hung Lin
Materials and Methods
The ovaries were stained with actin filament, tubulin, and DAPI, and phalloidin was used to visualize the cytoskeleton. The resulting images were scanned using confocal microscopy.
Description
"Ovarian Garden Realm" suggests a place full of life and beauty, akin to a garden filled with colorful flowers and lush greenery. The name also implies a sense of fertility and abundance, perhaps symbolizing the power of reproduction and feminine identity. Within this virtual reality, you may encounter various creatures and flora, as well as a vibrant ecosystem that immerses you in a beautiful and dynamic environment.
Still Life
Minutes and moments
Minutes and moments
e.g. Photography
Just the beautiful life episodes in IMB
Photographs taken in or from IMB capturing its everyday life and space such as candid photos, landscapes, selfies and photo-journals.
Example
Get outside. Watch the sunset!
Creator
Artwork and photography by Fang-Yu Hsu
Materials and Methods
Phone camera
Description
“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” — Richie Norton
What a wonderful moment in IMB.
Life and Beyond
Transcend and transform
Transcend and transform
e.g. Generated figures
Capturing life in various forms
Images illustrated by transforming data from one form to another such as graphs, plots, diagrams and AI-assisted generated images.
Example
What makes you stronger does kill you: Cell death propagates like forest wildfire
Creator
Vivian Lee
Materials and Methods
Borderless cell death propagation from the center after induction of cell survival and cell death simultaneously. Height of green bar indicates the level of cell survival induction, and yellow bar indicates the cell death. Image created using Zeiss Axio Observer 7 inverted 729 microscope.
Description
Cell death propagation to neighboring cells, leading to borderless large-scale cell death. This is analogous to a forest wildfire, where igniting one tree leads to a forest fire. Dead cells are colored as fire, and live cells are colored as trees. In this scenario, the induction with promoter of cell survival actually sensitizes the cell to the death inducer, and that tight cell-to-cell interaction serves as an abundance of fuel to the forest fire. Hence, what makes you stronger does kill you.
Life in Motion
Flowing and free
Flowing and free
e.g. Videos
Videos showing both the experiments and daily life of IMB, such as time-lapse microscopy, home videos, reels/shorts, and animations.
Example
Pink Carnation of Tomogram
Creator
Artwork by 525/N104, photography by Han
Materials and Methods
Vaccinia virus (VV) substructures were negatively stained by phosphotungstic acid. 120 kV TEM electron tomography (ET): Nominal magnification, 30 kx = 0.296 nm/pixel; angular range, -60° to +54°; increment, 2°. Tomogram was reconstructed and modeled by IMOD software packages.
Description
To celebrate Mother’s Day, paint the VV tomogram pink to look like a carnation.
Who can submit
All members of IMB/TIGP-MCB are eligible for submission.
Submission should be made by one contact person, but the artwork can be created by an individual, a lab, or a group of individuals.
Types of artworks accepted
Submitted artwork must be related to biological sciences or IMB
including Experimental Images, Videos, Data Analysis Figures, Photography, Scientific Illustrations, Secondary Creations ... etc.
Created by a member of IMB/TIGP-MCB. Artworks created by collaborators are subject to discussion.
Secondary creations are accepted given that there is no infringement on any copyrights
AI generated images (in part or in full) are accepted given the AI model is declared in Materials and Methods.
*STPA reserves the right to discuss about potential disqualifications
Image file specification
File format
For image files:
AVIF, BMP, GIF, HEIC, ICO, JPG, PNG, TIFF, WEBP
For video files:
3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DIVX, M2T, M2TS, M4V, MKV, MMV, MOD, MOV, MP4, MPG, MTS, TOD, WMV, animated GIF.
Please convert your files to the above format before uploading.
File conversion can be done here: https://convertio.co/
File size
Under 10 Mb for Images
Under 100 Mb for Videos
Resolution
Greater than 300 dpi recommended
*Please keep the original high-resolution file for potential future printing
**The artwork will be printed on A3 paper (horizontal or vertical) for the exhibition.
Awards
One outstanding piece will be chosen as the cover of 2024 IMB Retreat booklet
Bragging rights!!!
When & Where
Online submission:
Monday, Apr 22, 12 am - Sunday, May 19, 11:59 pm
Exhibition and Voting:
Thursday, May 23, 12 pm - Wednesday, May 29, 5 pm @ IMB B1
Award ceremony:
Thursday, May 30, 4 pm @ IMB B1