Andor Insight Awards Scientific Imaging Competition

Dr. Neil Ganem’s ‘multipolar spindle intermediate’ more

  

Andor Technology (Andor), announced that two visually stunning and scientifically captivating entries have won joint first place in the first ever Andor Insight Awards Scientific Imaging Competition. The winning entries were submitted by Dr David Jess and Professor Mihalis Mathioudakis's of Queen's University and Dr. Neil Ganem at Harvard University.
Dr David Jess and Professor Mihalis Mathioudakis's entry is entitled ‘The Solar Cauldron' which details the Sun's turbulent and dynamic atmosphere. Acquired using an Andor iXon+ EMCCD and a 76cm telescope in the United States, the image provides an unprecedented view of magnetic field lines, as indicated by the dark straw-like structures present all over the field-of-view. Incredibly, these phenomena display supersonic motion, with velocities exceeding 30 km/s.
Dr. Neil Ganem's of the David Pellman Lab in Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School entered a confocal image (in various colors) of a human cell with extra centrosomes passing through a transient ‘multipolar spindle intermediate'. It was captured on a Revolution XD Confocal Microscope System.
The winners finished ahead of over 100 other entries and were selected from a panel of expert judges from both life and physical science that included; Professor Tony Wilson of Oxford University, Dr. Sun of University of Alberta, Dr. Eduardo Rosa-Molinar University of Puerto Rico, Dr. Don Pollacco of Queen's University and Donal Denvir from Andor Technology.
The Insight Awards focus on recognising the cutting edge research carried out by researches using Andor Technology equipment in the fields of Physical, Life Sciences Imaging and Spectroscopy. This year's entries utilised the full spectrum of Andor and Bitplane products including spectrographs, EMCCD cameras, Confocal Microscope Systems and Imaris software.
For further information on the Insight Awards or to view more scientifically captivating and visually stunning scientific images, graphics and movies please visit :

http://www.andor.com/insight

Keywords: Andor Imaging Competition Insight Award 2010

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