The winners are:

• 1^st place, Lalit Gautam
  • The sample is a fully differentiated (28 Day) airway epithelial monolayer culture on Air Liquid Interface (ALI)
  • Green : Acetylated α-tubulin
  • Red: F-actin

• 2^nd place, Milad Arzani
  • Colored scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a human blood clot.

• 3^rd place, Xingshan Jiang
  • Immunohistochemistry of mouse colon
  • Pink color show fatty acid-binding protein

Congratulations to the winners!

And thank you to all who submitted images this year. We can't wait to see what images you submit next year!

The goal of The Iowa Art in Science Contest is to recognize the combination of outstanding scientific discovery and artistic appeal inherent to microscopy research. Images from any mode of microscopy can be used, and any form of colorization, manipulation and compositing is completely acceptable. Be creative, have fun!