Olympus Names Prestigious Judges for 2008 BioScapes International
Digital Imaging Competition
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) August 27, 2008 --
Olympus America today announced the judges for its fifth annual
BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition, which honors the
world’s finest life science images, both still
and moving, as captured through light microscopes. The judges include
some of the most widely recognized international researchers and
photographers in the biomedical field, reflecting the competition’s
goal of honoring the world’s most striking and
significant life science images.
The judges for the 2008 competition are Dr. Claire M. Brown, of McGill
University’s Life Sciences Complex Imaging
Facility in Montreal, Canada; Dr. Douglas Murphy, Director of the Light
Microscopy Facility at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farms
Research Campus, Ashburn, Va.; Dr. John M. Murray, of the Department of
Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical
School, Philadelphia, Pa.; and world-renowned photomicrographer Wim van
Egmond of The Netherlands.
The Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition focuses
on the amazing stories being told through the images and movies captured
in today’s life science laboratories, and on
the remarkable confluence of science and art. The world’s
foremost forum for recognizing life science images captured through
light microscopes, it carries a top prize worth $5,000. Each entrant can
submit up to five still images, image sequences, or movies. Any
magnification and any brand of equipment can be used; judges are not
given equipment/brand information when judging. Deadline for entering
the 2008 competition is September 30; winners will be notified in
October, and publicly announced in December. For more information or to
enter the competition, visit www.olympusbioscapes.com.
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