Best cell bio images of 2010

The winners of this year's American Society for Cell Biology video and photo contest, "Celldance," focus on the art that underlies the work cell biologists do every day.The winning video, "Cellular Recognition," earned linkurl:U. Serdar Tulu;http://www.biology.duke.edu/kiehartlab/people.html at Duke University $500 for his ability to capture the dynamics of filopodia during Drosophila development. During the film, two epidermal cell sheets merge to form the epidermis.

U. Serdar Tulu at Duke University captures the dynamics of filopodia during
Drosophila development, in which two epidermal cell sheets merge to
form the epidermis.

"Actomyosin and Focal Adhesion
in Fly Egg Chamber"
Image: Li He

The #1 photo entry, by linkurl:Li He,;http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/biochem/news/index.htm a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, captures the colorfully stained image of follicle cells in a fruit fly egg chamber, and also netted He $500. The image depicts the nuclei (blue), focal adhesions (green), and actin filaments (red).The second place image, by graduate student linkurl:Graham Johnson;http://mgl.scripps.edu/people/goodsell/mgs_art/mgs_art2/johnson2.html at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, captures the power of multidrug resistance (MDR) transporters. Second place for the videos was shared by linkurl:Karl Lechtreck at the University of Massachusetts Medical School;http://www.umassmed.edu/cellbio/faculty/index.aspx and Rosalind Silverman of the University of Toronto.

A video by Karl Lechtreck at the University of Massachusetts Medical School
shows the movement of cilia inside mouse trachea.

"Most cell biologists are in large part motivated by the beauty they see in cells every day of their professional life," linkurl:Rex Chisholm;http://www.chisholm.northwestern.edu/ of Northwestern University, who chairs the ASCB Public Information Committee that sponsors the "Celldance" contest, said in a statement.

"Promiscuous membrane drug transporters"
Image: Graham Johnson

"In one sense, working with cells is like working in an art gallery where the art changes every day," Chisholm said.
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