Anatomical Society Best Image Prize

Background

Judging Panel: Website, Media and Communications Committee.

Deadline Dates for Prizes: 31st May and 31st October.

Images: Should be a single colourful graphical image as a JPEG or TIF file with a minimum resolution of 300dpi and a maximum size of 3Mb, for use on our website/newsletter or other media. We will also accept colourful images of anatomical artwork.

Please confirm that you have obtained permission from the people in any images that you send to us that they are content for their images to be used on the Anatomical Society website/newsletter or other media. By submitting an image you are confirming that you have obtained permission from the people in any photos that you send to us that they are content for their photos to be used on the Anatomical Society website/newsletter and other media.

Short Title: Title to identify image (no more than 3 words)

Narrative: A short narrative should accompany the image (50 words - similar to a figure legend). For example: what it is; how it was produced; why it is special and so forth.

Number of images: An applicant may submit not more than 3 images for any one competition. Normally images can only be submitted to a single competition.

Copyright: Applicants submitting images must either own the copyright of the image or have gained the explicit permission of the copyright holder for the image to be submitted for this award. By submitting an image (s) Applicants are confirming that either he/she own(s) the copyright of the image or have gained the explicit permission of the copyright holder for the image to be submitted for this award and to be used on the Anatomical Society website/newsletter and other media.

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Eligibility:

The lead submitting author must be a member of the Anatomical Society who has been elected to membership by Council by the submission date of the award and is up-to-date with their subscriptions to the Society.

Award:

£ 200 is awarded twice a year.

Submission: Complete entry form (NB. complete all boxes). Email as attachments the completed entry form and the image to theteam@anatsoc.org.uk

Entry Form

Anatomical Society Best Image Award Entry Form

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Previous Recipients of Best Image Prize

October 2021

May 2021

FIRST PRIZE

Image Title	Science in Bloom
Description	Pseudo-colorized scanning electron micrograph of the in vitro mineralised jellyfish collagen scaffold (Jellagen®Ltd). Owing to the highly porous structure of the scaffold, collagen fibres (PINK and GREEN) are randomly tangled in a flower-like shape, with mineral deposition (yellow) observed on the surface for enhanced osseointegration and new bone formation.
Submission Date	24/05/2021
Name(s) of LEAD submitting author(s ) who must be members of the Anatomical Society and institution(s)	Miss Patricia Medesan, Doctoral Fellow in Anatomical/Biomedical Sciences, Paxton Laboratory, Edinburgh Medical School, UK
Name(s) of Other submitting author(s ) and institution(s)	Dr Jennifer Z. Paxton, Senior Lecturer in Anatomy, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School, UK Professor Andrew Mearns-Spragg, Jellagen®Ltd, Cardiff, UK

RUNNER-UP PRIZE

Image Title	Dissection of Experience
Description	As an artist with a fascination for Anatomy, I am privileged to have the opportunity to carry out cadaveric dissections. This oil painting (120cm x 120cm) is my subjective response to that necessarily objective experience. The intention is to challenge what I see as the tenuous art - science distinction.
Submission Date	20/05/21
Name(s) of LEAD submitting author(s ) who must be members of the Anatomical Society and institution(s)	Dr Jac Saorsa
Name(s) of Other submitting author(s ) and institution(s)	None

October 2020

FIRST PRIZE
Image Title	Trigeminal Nerve
Description	Illustration of the right eye showing the ophthalmic and maxillary divisions of the trigeminal nerve. Drawn by hand using pencil with computer colour rendering. Completed for research on the disease of syphilis.
Submission Date	31/10/20
Name(s) of LEAD submitting author(s ) who must be members of the Anatomical Society and institution(s)	Ms Lydia Carline
Name(s) of Other submitting author(s ) and institution(s)	N/A

RUNNER-UP BEST IMAGE PRIZE
Image Title	Tissue Scaffold Neurosphere
Description	A maximum image projection of a differentiating induced pluripotent stem cell derived neurosphere cultured in a 3D porous, soft hyaluronic acid tissue scaffold in vitro. Astrocytes (pink) coalesce at the core driving intrinsic signalling while differentiating neurons (yellow) are found at the periphery. Imaged using a Zeiss Examiner.Z1 confocal microscope.
Submission Date	29/10/2020
Name(s) of LEAD submitting author(s ) who must be members of the Anatomical Society and institution(s)	Dr Adrian Dervan - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland & Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre (AMBER)
Name(s) of Other submitting author(s ) and institution(s)	Mr Cian O’ Connor – Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland & Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre (AMBER) Professor Fergal O’Brien - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland & Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre (AMBER)

May 2020

FIRST PRIZE
Image Title	Skate skeletal preparation
Description	In this skeletal preparation of a little skate (Leucoraja erinacea) hatchling, cartilage and mineralised tissues are stained with Alcian Blue and Alizarin Red, respectively. Cartilaginous fishes, like the skate, do not form bone, but instead reinforce their skeleton with tiny superficial tiles of calcified cartilage called “tesserae”.
Submission Date	30 May 2020
Name(s) of LEAD submitting author(s ) who must be members of the Anatomical Society and institution(s)	Andrew Gillis
Name(s) of Other submitting author(s ) and institution(s)	N/A

RUNNER-UP PRIZE
Image Title	Tooth root kaleidoscope
Description	Confocal image of the root of a tooth showing in green the expression of the putative stem cell marker Thy1. The image has been mirrored and flipped to give the impression of a kaleidoscope.
Submission Date	27/05/2020
Name(s) of LEAD submitting author(s ) who must be members of the Anatomical Society and institution(s)	Abigail Tucker
Name(s) of Other submitting author(s ) and institution(s)	Rupali Lav

October 2019

FIRST PRIZE
Image Title	Developing Zebrafish Heart
Description	Live light sheet images of the heart and connecting vasculature of a 3-day old zebrafish embryo. Tissue-specific transgenic lines allow visualisation of actin in the myocardial (green) and endocardial (magenta) cells of the heart, providing highly detailed 3D reconstructions of cardiac morphogenesis.
Submission Date	29.10.19
Name(s) of LEAD submitting author(s ) who must be members of the Anatomical Society and institution(s)	Dr Emily Noël, University of Sheffield
Name(s) of Other submitting author(s ) and institution(s)	Ms Juliana Sanchez Posada

JOINT RUNNER-UP
Image Title	Osteocyte lacunae
Description	High-resolution µCT data was collected at the Diamond Light Source synchrotron to visualise the internal structure of human orthotopic (left) and heterotopic (right) bone. This 3D volumetric render illustrates the morphological comparability of osteocyte lacunae (in green) across bone types. Bone surfaces (including Haversian canal walls) are shown in brown.
Submission Date	31^st October, 2019
Name(s) of LEAD submitting author (s) who must be members of the Anatomical Society and institution(s)	Dr Crispin Wiles, University of Warwick
Name(s) of Other submitting author (s) and Institution(s)	None

JOINT RUNNER-UP
Image Title	Middle ear apparatus
Description	Composite photomicrograph of the left middle ear apparatus of a chinchilla. Careful dissection has revealed the tensor tympani muscle (centre left): its tendon crosses the middle ear cavity to insert on the manubrium of the malleus. The head of the stapes is visible in the background.
Submission Date	31.10.19
Name(s) of LEAD submitting author (s) who must be members of the Anatomical Society and institution(s)	Dr Matthew J. Mason University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience
Name(s) of Other submitting author (s) and institution(s)	None

May 2019

FIRST PRIZE

Image Title

(3 words max.)

Cerebellar slice culture

Description

(50 words max.)

This confocal image depicts a mouse cerebellar slice culture immunostained with the neuronal marker Calbindin (red) and myelin (white). Image was captured using a Zeiss LSM710 confocal microscope (Zeiss, Germany) and 10x objective.

Submission Date

23/05/2019

Name(s) of LEAD submitting author(s ) who must be members of the Anatomical Society and institution(s)

Dr Francesca Pieropan

University of Portsmouth

Name(s) of Other submitting author(s ) and institution(s)

Dr Andrea D. Rivera