Congratulations to Pascal Hunziker, who wins prize at DNRF Photo competition
DynaMo member and PhD student Pascal Hunziker winns the third prize at the Danish National Research Foundations photo competition in February 2018.
Read the interview at DNRFs homepage
The assessment panels commented the picture as a beautiful and poetic picture of a reconizable leaf in a completely new light. The delicate structures are in reality a part of the plant's defence system, which through advanced protein markers has become visible.
The picture has a high technical quality and appear as a harmonic picture eventhough is consist of 74 single images stiched together in a projection of 15 layers each.
Confocal laser-scanning micrograph showing an entire leaf of a thale cress plant. The yellow signal visualizes the localization of a crucial transport protein identified by the DynaMo Center. This protein is responsible for loading defense compounds into the plant’s circulatory system; the picture reveals that the plant is able to defend all of its cells using a continuously finer and finer transport network. The image is a tile scan consisting of 74 single images stitched together. On top of this, each of the 74 images represents a projection of 15 layers in order to cover the whole depth of the leaf.