Imaging competition winners announced!

Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) of Xenograft Mouse
by Ms Jurie Tashkandi

The 2021 Monash Biomedical Imaging (MBI) image competition celebrated outstanding scanner images obtained at MBI and Alfred Research Alliance – Monash Biomedical Imaging (ARA-MBI).

Congratulations to the winners: Ms Jennifer Tinston (PhD student in the Epilepsy and Behaviour group, Department of Neuroscience), Ms Jurie Tashkandi (PhD student in the Nanotheranostics group in the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases), Dr Bianca Jupp, Dr Karen Alt and Dr Chao Suo. 

View the winning entries on the MBI website with additional information about each image.

Monash Micro Imaging Image Competition: closing date 10 Dec 2019

Monash Micro Imaging (MMI) has just opened its annual Image Competition for the 2019 round. Entries are invited from all optical imaging instruments and modalities (brightfield, fluorescence, confocal or other), and may be an original, processed or rendered image, or a movie/animation. There are as usual cash prizes for top 3 selected entries, and the top 13 images will appear in the 2020 MMI Calendar.

Details

• Closing date: Tuesday 10 December 2019
• Rules: See attached pdf, or download (Google drive link).
• Submissions: via this Google form (or follow the link in the flyer).

Science competition "CF's Got Talent!" streaming live from London 26 Sep 2019

Dr Anh Thu Dang

One of our researchers, Dr Anh Thu Dang, is competing in the UK based Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Trust science competition "CF's Got Talent!" next week, 26 September. The event will be livestreamed on CF Trust's Facebook page. She'll be talking about damping lung inflammation by tweaking the gut microbiome, and her title is: ‘Short chain fatty acids as CF therapeutics against pulmonary infections’.

Anh Thu is a post-doctoral research assistant based at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, in Professor Benjamin Marsland’s lab. They are working on one of the programmes within the CF Trust's SRC ‘Restoring balance in the gut for less inflammation in the lungs’, led by Leeds-based Professor Daniel Peckham. 

Photo of the week: Monash Microimaging image competition - entries due 7 Dec 2018

MMI competition open for entries - closing date 7 December 2018. Image: /platforms.monash.edu/mmi/

Monash Microimaging are once again running their annual image competition!

• Cash prizes for the best 3 entries
• Categories for this years competition are now expanded to include:
• Widefield/Fluorescence/Confocal/Light-sheet and other microscopy modalities
• Animation/Movie of 3D Volume/Surface Rendering, Dynamic Imaging, Time-Lapse or Computer Animation 
• 13 of the selected best entries will feature in 2019 MMI calendar
• Movies/Animations to be used as graphic displays or 3D printed models

Submission deadline: 7 December, 2018

MMI Image of the Year Competition 2017 - closing date for entries 6 Nov

 Monash Micro Imaging (MMI) Image of the Year Competition 2017 seeking entries - closing date 6 November 2017. There are cash prizes for the best 3 entries. and the 13 selected best entries will be featured in the 2018 MMI calendar. 

Photo of the week: Monash Microimaging Image of the Year 2016 competition

Monash Microimaging (MMI) are holding an Image of the Year competition. There are prizes and glory to be had!

Photo of the Week: “Snapshots of the immune system” photo exhibition 2016 - entries close 28 March 2016

Bovine pulmonary artery endothelial (BPAE) cell imaged with confocal microscope. Image courtesy
Monash Microimaging.

Researchers at all levels are invited to apply and submit images featuring the amazing immune system as part of the 2016 Day of Immunology activities. These can be histology, confocal, laboratory scenes, public health related, and everything in between.

Translational Research (TR) Young Investigator Poster competition 30 Sep: calling for entries

Jodie Abramovitch presenting her poster at the 2014 CCS postgraduate symposium.

The Translational Research Symposium and Department of Medicine's 50th anniversary celebration is being hosted by the Central Clinical School on 30 September. The inaugural Young Investigator poster competition is open to graduate students and early career researchers, with a $500 first prize. The symposium will be held throughout the day and into the evening at the AMREP Education Centre. A diverse group of medical researchers, medical alumni, and representatives from associated industries will be there. See more:

• Submit an entry for the Young Investigator poster competition. Entries close Mon 31 August
• About the symposium: www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/events/2015-tr-symposium.html
• RSVP to attend the symposium