Olympus Image of the Year Award 2021
4 Nov 2021
Olympus has just launched its third Image of the Year contest and is accepting entries. Each year, the competition recognises the best in life science imaging worldwide to inspire and showcase art through microscopy.
Deadline for entries is January 31 at 12:00 p.m. JST, 2022
Olympus is continuing to search for the best light microscopy images in 2021. Olympus’ third Global Image of the Year Life Science Light Microscopy Award recognises the very best in life science imaging worldwide. Participants can win an SZX7 microscope with a DP28 digital camera or a CX23 microscope.
One global winner and one regional winner from the participants in each of the three regions (Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Americas) will be selected.
Some of last year's winners included a spooky red-eyed rat, beautiful butterfly wings, and snakeskin on a microscopic scale.
The international jury includes experts from both science and the arts, including Wendy Salmon, director of the Hooker Imaging Core Facility at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Medicine; Geoff Williams, manager of the Leduc BioImaging Facility at Brown University; Harini Sreenivasappa, microscopy facility manager of the Cell Imaging Center at Drexel University; Rachid Rezgui, research instrumentation scientist at New York University Abu Dhabi; Siân Culley, postdoctoral research associate at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at UCL; Stefan Terjung, operational manager of the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility at EMBL Heidelberg; Wen-Biao Gan, director of the Institute of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders at Shenzhen Bay Laboratory; and Anne Beghin, research assistant professor at MechanoBiology Institute, National University of Singapore.
About the Image of the Year (IOTY) Award
Olympus’ IOTY Award began in 2017 as the Image of the Year European Life Science Light Microscopy Award with the aim to celebrate both the artistic and scientific value of microscopy images. Today, the competition stays true to this mission by encouraging people around the world to look at scientific images in a new way, appreciate their beauty and share images with others.
All entries will be evaluated based on artistic and visual aspects, scientific impact and microscope proficiency.
Winning images are published in Laboratory News as part of our ongoing Focal Point image feature.
More information about the Global Image of the Year Life Science Light Microscopy Award, including jury members’ biographies, last year’s winning images and the full terms and conditions, can be found at Olympus-LifeScience.com/IOTY.
For more information about Olympus Life Science, please visit Olympus-LifeScience.com.
