2024 IMB
Imaging & Photography Competition
Submission : 4/22 - 5/21
Exhibition and Voting : 5/23-5/29
Award Ceremony : 5/30
Submission : 4/22 - 5/21
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!
Creator:
Experiment by Hannah Co, processing and digital sketch by Jen-Hao Cheng
Materials and Methods:
Immunofluorescence of a transcription factor overlaid with DAPI, done on self-organized spindle-shaped cells, touched up by digital sketch
Description:
In glowing cells, a sparrow born,
To soar beyond the culture's morn,
A flight of light, a fleeting show,
From lab to sky, it's free to go.
-description generated by ChatGPT
Creator:
Experiment and imaging by Poulomi
Materials and Methods:
The active neurons were "Trapped" in the Fos-CreER mouse brain by tamoxifen drug injection to express tdTomato fluorescent protein.
Description:
Amidst the vast expanse of darkness, the soma of a neuron extends its delicate processes, reaching out like tendrils of curiosity. It seeks to find kindred partners, yearning to intertwine and form intricate bonds in a symphony of neural connection.
Category Winners will receive a $700 gift voucher for Eslite + $50 gift.
First 15 Submissions will receive a special afternoon-tea snack pack from Books and Coffee
All Participants will receive a unique print-out of their artworks
Outstanding piece will be chosen as the cover of 2024 IMB Retreat booklet
and of course, Bragging rights!!!
Monday, Apr 22, 12 am - Tuesday, May 21, 11:59 pm
Thursday, May 23, 12 pm - Wednesday, May 29, 5 pm @ IMB B1
Thursday, May 30, 4 pm @ IMB B1
Microscopy 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Recording the dynamics of life
Videos showing both the experiments and daily life of IMB, such as time-lapse microscopy, home videos, reels/shorts, and animations.
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.
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.
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
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.