Call for Entries: Science Photographer of the Year 2019


The winning photographs will be chosen by an expert panel of selectors including TV Science Presenter Dallas Campbell.


RPS Science Exhibition Coordinator, Gary Evans said, “The competition is open to everyone. We are looking for images from all ages that tell a story about science – how it is used, how it looks or how it impacts people’s lives. Fun or serious, the selectors will be looking for the story behind the picture as well as the visual impact it makes.”


Dallas Campbell added: “I am delighted to be involved in this


competition. Science is all around us whether it be engineering, astronomy, the microscopic world or nature and what’s great is that you don’t even need professional camera equipment to capture it. The competition makes science accessible to everyone via the readily available medium of photography and I am really looking forward to seeing the entries we receive.”


Ferrofl uid Glowing Multicolour: Ella Main (UK)


The Royal Photographic Society is now accepting entries for its Science Photographer of the Year competition 2019.


Open to all ages and levels of expertise, the competition has two categories; Science Photographer of the Year and Young Science Photographer of the Year (18 years and under).


Entrants are required to take a visually appealing picture that tells a science story either with a camera or smart phone. The winners will be announced at an event in London in October.


The competition is £15 to enter (£12 for RPS members) and up to fi ve images can be uploaded. Entry is free for 18s and under. Simply register and upload images at science.rps.org. Closing date is midnight on Friday 19th July 2019.


In the 2017 competition Ella Main (UK) won the Gold Award in the 17 & Under category with her image: Ferrofl uid Glowing Multicolour, showing A mixture of ferrofl uid and liquid from a glow stick. Ferrofl uid is a colloidal liquid containing iron nanoparticles in an organic solvent. Glow sticks typically contain phenyl oxalate, hydrogen peroxide and a fl uorescent dye. When these two fl uids were placed together, they formed a complex self-organised pattern. The mathematics behind this were fi rst described by Alan Turing as an explanation for, among other things, stripes on animal skin.


Liesegang rings: Gabriel Keleman


The entry from Science Photographer of the Year 2017 winner Gabriel Keleman, was one of the 100 shortlisted images (including the winners) that was exhibited at Science Festivals across the UK and at the Royal Albert Hall. In the reaction Gabriel Kelemen photographed, a mixture of potassium dichromate, silver nitrate and cerium sulphate were added to a gelatin solution. Named after the German chemist Raphael Liesegang, the blue Liesegang rings seen here are formed in many precipitation reactions, where two liquid solutions are combined and a precipitate - or solid - is created.


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Royal Society’s


Publishing Photography Competition: Entries Open


The Royal Society is appealing for entries to its prestigious Publishing 2019 Photography Competition. Celebrating the power of photography in science and the role great images play in making science accessible to a wider audience, the competition is split into fi ve categories – Astronomy, Behaviour,


Earth science and climatology, Ecology and


environmental science, and Micro-imaging - and is free to enter, but only open to scientists.


Submissions will be accepted until 30 August 2019, with the winners to be announced in December 2019.To celebrate the fi fth anniversary of the competition, the overall winner will receive £1,000 and the category winners will each win £500.


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Dr Andy Filby


2019 RMS Flow Cytometry Medal Winner Revealed


Dr Andy Filby, Director of the Flow Cytometry Core Facility (FCCF) at Newcastle University (NU), has been announced by the RMS as the latest winner of its prestigious Flow Cytometry Medal.


The biennial prize - part of the RMS Medal Series, was presented in recognition for the enormous contribution he has made, and continues to make, to the discipline of fl ow cytometry and imaging cytometry in terms of method development, academic output, professional affi liations and teaching activities.


Andy said: “It is a massive honour to be awarded the RMS medal for fl ow cytometry. I feel very proud to be recognised by my peers and by such a prestigious society for the work that I do in cytometry and single cell analysis. I would also like to acknowledge the efforts and skills of my team here at Newcastle and the wonderful support I have received from the faculty and the University in general.”


Andy is set to receive his medal at the fl owcytometryUK Meeting on 21 November 2019.


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Dutch Award Recognises Rising Young Talent


From 28 Dutch technology company nominees Confocal.nl were named as one of ten winners of the Netherlands Academic Startup Competition organised by the Association of Universities (VSNU), the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (AcTI) and StartupDelta. The award enables them to pitch for future investment at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) and may go on a trip to Silicon Valley sponsored by the Ministry of Economic Affairs. There they will have the opportunity to learn how they can scale up their innovation faster and thus take the step from startup to scale-up.


Speaking at the awards ceremony, Dutch State Secretary Mona Keijzer said “ Academic startups are extremely important for the Netherlands because of their often innovative breakthroughs that have an impact on society in all sorts of ways. The 10 winners show that Dutch universities and institutes play on the highest global stage.” This opinion is shared by Pieter Duisenberg, chairman of the Association of Universities (VSNU). He said “Academic startups build a bridge between science and society: they convert ground- breaking science in tangible innovations and that is very valuable.


These 10 startups show that our efforts to promote entrepreneurship at the university are bearing fruit and I am proud of that. We want to continue to focus on this in the future.”


Accepting the award for Confocal.nl was Chief Operating Offi cer, Mariliis Tark-Dame. “It is fulfi lling to receive this award recognising the efforts of our founders, Erik Manders & Peter Drent, who had the vision for the need for affordable, fresh technology in the competitive world of imaging in the health & life sciences sectors. After three years, we now have our second generation of product coming to the market backed by a team of young, motivated scientists who share our startup philosophy: to change the microscopy industry with a confocal microscope based on the re-scan invention: the Re-scan Confocal Microscope (RCM). RCM combines the super-resolution capability with higher sensitivity than most confocal microscopes. This award makes us feel proud and will help drive us forward to the next stages of our growth.”


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