Every year Nikon announces the winners of its video microscopy contest, and every year I am amazed at the technological advances in imaging that have taken place. This year is no exception, with the winner showing waves of cell division in a fruit fly embryo.
Second place went to this video of water droplets evaporating from the wing scales of a peacock butterfly.
Third place was for this time lapse of an oligodendrocyte precursor cell in a zebrafish embryo.
And as we always like to feature as much water bear content as possible, here’s the fifth place winner, a rodeo tardigrade riding a bucking nematode. Yeehaw!
David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.
