Olympus America has announced the judges for its fifth annual BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition honouring the finest life science images as captured through light microscopes.
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 photomicrographer Wim van Egmond of The Netherlands.
The Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition focuses on the stories being told through the images and movies captured in today's life science laboratories.
It carries a top prize worth USD5,000.
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 30 September; winners will be notified in October, and publicly announced in December.
