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2021 Microscopy Today Micrograph Awards Charles Lyman, Senior Editor Te third Microscopy Today Micrograph Awards compe-


tition was successful (even in the year of the pandemic). Te premise of these competitions is that scientific micrographs can be interesting in their own right as images with visual impact. Submissions came from over 20 countries. Te judges could not see the names or affiliations of the submitters. Of the 25 finalist micrographs (on the July cover and in the Micros- copy Today micrograph gallery at https://www.microscopy. org/awards/micrograph_gallery_2021/), 8 were from the USA, and 17 were from other countries. In this article, we show the three prize winners in each cat-


egory: Published category, for micrographs published in the previous year; Open category, for unpublished micrographs; and the Video category, for clips of movies taken through a microscope or of animations of reconstructed images. Te images to follow are the first, second, and third prize winners in each category, as well as the winner of the People’s Choice Award. Finalists and prize winners were selected by a panel of judges led by Robert Simmons, and the People’s Choice Award


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was selected via public voting at the competition gallery on the MSA website. Te judging panel for the 2021 competition was comprised of five judges, all of whom bring their own special expertise. Tis year, Robert Simmons (Chief Judge), Charles Lyman (Senior Editor), and Bob Price (Editor-in-Chief) were joined by Esther Bullitt and Beth Appleton. Esther is Associ- ate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Boston Univer- sity School of Medicine and current Past President of MSA. As a structural biologist using electron cryomicroscopy to solve structures of assemblies involved in pathogenesis, she looks for both beauty and function in images: does the image tell a story, and is it striking or beautiful? Beth is a nationally recognized artist living on the Gulf Coast of Florida. She finds inspiration in studying the local aquatic life through her own microscope and applies this to her art. In this way, she hopes to strengthen the bridge between art and science. Tis group of scientists/art- ists provides the broad knowledge base needed to address the scientific, technical, and aesthetic aspects of our competition. Te original idea for the Microscopy Today Micrograph Awards competition was proposed by Robert and Camille


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Prize. Harpacticoid copepod (possibly Tigriopus). Copepods are the most abundant metazoan in the earth’s waters and are found in marine and fresh


water, from lakes and streams to ocean trenches. This example was photographed under ultraviolet light, which causes fluorescence of certain features; the stomach fluoresces red due to the chlorophyll-rich algae it has eaten. Published in Biological Bulletin, August 2020, Volume 239, Number 1 (https://doi.org/10.1086/709646). Image by Håkan Kvarnström, Bromma, Sweden.


18 doi:10.1017/S1551929521001097 www.microscopy-today.com • 2021 September


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