Research Image of the Year 2023

2023 Image of the Year winner and commendation

The following winner and commendation were determinned by a public vote based on:

• overall impact of image
• relevance of the image to the research
• effectiveness in engaging viewer with research.

The winner will receive a £100 voucher and have their image used as the main image to promote this year's Research Day.

As well as the winner, a highly commended image as been given as a runner up which will also be highlighted during the promotion of Research Day.

The competition was open to all except the winners from the previous year and we encouraged submission of images from any area of research at St George's, this could be anything from molecular, cellular, to fieldwork or clinical work.

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Winner: Florencia Cavodeassi - Into a black hole

Florencia's image shows a sagittal section of an 8 day post-fertilisation zebrafish eye with the outer photoreceptor segments stained by anti-Zpr1 (magenta), amacrine and retinal ganglion cells expressing GFP [Tg(islt1:GFP); cyan], and nuclei counterstained with DAPI (blue).

This image was generated by confocal imaging with a Leica Sp8 confocal system. The image was processed with Fiji/ImageJ.

Florencia's image is shown first in the gallery above.

Commended: Isabelle Salles-Crawley - Final image

Isabelle's image shows neutrophil extracellular traps (green) expelled from activated neutrophils (red) after interacting with platelets captured from VWF released from endothelial cells (purple).

This image was generated from Z-stack images with Nikon A1R confocal microscope (40X objective and 2.5x zoomed in) using Nikon NIS-Elements C software. 

Isabelle's image is shown second in the gallery above.