Awards recognition for outstanding microscopy images

This win follows a very successful 12 months where Alan’s microscopy work has been recognised in five other national and international competitions.

In April, he was placed third in the British Society for Cell Biology Image Prize with a confocal image of a cultured mouse embryo fibroblast from the mito-QC mouse. This followed a third place in the 2017 competition. Imagery of the mito-QC mouse provided further successes in three further competitions:

• Alan was named as a semi-finalist in the 2019 HOOKEd on Microscopy contest at the Clemson Light Imaging Facility, Clemson University, South Carolina with an image of developing mouse whiskers.
• A laser scanning confocal photomicrograph entitled “Mitochondrial Turnover in the Developing Mouse Eye” selected for the Images from Science 3 touring exhibition at Rochester Institute of Technology and John Hopkins University.
• An image of a mouse won the Vectorlab Photo competition in January. Images taken from a frozen section of an eye from the mitoQC mouse at developmental stage E16.5.

Finally, Alan’s image of “Inside a Lichen” was included in the 2020 Royal Microscopical Society Digital Calendar as the January image. The image of mineral crystals from within the heart of lichen collected from a Birch tree in Dundee was captured on a scanning electron microscope.

Alan works with the Dundee Imaging Facility in the School and has expertise in electron and light microscopy. To find out more about the facility and how they can help you with your research visit the Dundee Imaging Facility web page.