Entry to this year’s Hans Schuppe imaging competition is now open!
Dr Hans Schuppe was the founder of the SoBS' Imaging Facility and head of Imaging until 2013, he was a deeply popular member of staff and committed to teaching and furthering imaging at UoS.
The Hans Schuppe Image Prize is established in his memory, and is open to every undergraduate and postgraduate within the School of Biological Sciences. Any image related to biology in the widest possible sense can be submitted (to a maximum of three images per student), ranging from microscope images to photographs of wildlife and the environment. There are cash prizes, and winning images will be framed and permanently displayed in the Observatory in B85.
The panel of judges consists of celebrated Emmy-award winning TV naturalist, biologist and imaging expert David Barlow, Imaging facility Manager Mark Willett and life-scientist and photonics expert Simon Lane.
Please submit your images by email to hansschuppeprize@soton.ac.uk with a brief description. Entry closes on 1 Feb 2020
Many congratulations to Katrin Deinhardt’s group for their Journal of Neuroscience publication which used facility imaging equipment:
Hallinan, G Et. Al. Tau misfolding efficiently propagates between individual intact hippocampal neurons
Many congratulations to Jeremy Webb’s NBIC group for their Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy publication which used facility imaging equipment:
Soren, O Et. Al. Cephalosporin nitric oxide-donor prodrug DEA-C3D disperses biofilms formed by clinical cystic fibrosis isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Many congratulations to Yihua Wang’s group for their Nature Cell Death and Disease publication which used facility imaging equipment:
Hill, C Et. Al. Autophagy inhibition-mediated epithelial–mesenchymal transition augments local myofibroblast differentiation in pulmonary fibrosis
02/08/2019
Many congratulations to Amrit Mudher’s group for their Neurodegeneration publication which used facility imaging equipment:
Chatterjee, S Et. Al. Insulin-Mediated Changes in Tau Hyperphosphorylation and Autophagy in a Drosophila Model of Tauopathy and Neuroblastoma Cells
Many congratulations to Mariana Vargas-Cabellero’s group for their Molecular Brain publication which used facility electrophysiology equipment:
Warming, H Et. Al. A primate-specific short GluN2A-NMDA receptor isoform is expressed in the human brain.
Many congratulations to Katrin Deinhardt’s group for their Journal of Biological Chemistry publication which used facility imaging equipment:
Pitera, A.P. Et. Al. Pathogenic tau does not drive activation of the unfolded protein response.
Many congratulations to Jonathan West and Katrin Deinhardt’s group for their Lab on a Chip publication which used facility imaging equipment:
Holloway P.M. Et. Al. Asymmetric confinement for defining outgrowth directionality
Many congratulations to Sandrine Willaime-Morawek’s group for their PNAS publication which used facility imaging equipment:
Gould, G.M. Et. Al. Mouse maternal protein restriction during preimplantation alone permanently alters brain neuron proportion and adult short-term memory
Many congratulations to Yihua Wang’s group for their Nature Cell Death and Differentiation publication which used facility imaging equipment:
Yao, Y Et. Al. Paracrine signalling during ZEB1-mediated epithelial–mesenchymal transition augments local myofibroblast differentiation in lung fibrosis
Many congratulations to Katrin Deinhardt’s group for their Journal of Cell Science publication which used facility imaging equipment:
Soloperto, A. Et. Al. Mechano-sensitization of mammalian neuronal networks through expression of the bacterial large-conductance mechanosensitive ion channel.
We have just had the awarding of the Hans Schuppe Imaging prize 2016 to Emily Farthing, with Lily Mendes da Costa as the runner-up; both pictures are attached. Emily’s winning image of a guard cell is now framed in the meeting room area at level 6 in B85.
Emily Farthing (winner):
“I’m so happy to be part of this award remembering Hans Schuppe, who originally trained me in microscopy. This picture was quite an important part of my Ph.D and it’s great to be able to share it with everyone. The image shows a 3D leaf cell with the chloroplasts in red fluorescence and the vacuole membrane in green.”
Lily Mendes da Costa (runner up):
“I am really thankful to have been a part of this award in memory of Hans Schuppe. I waited around three hours to take this image of this snow leopard pair. I wanted a photograph that captured the personality of these big cats, which I think I have achieved! Thank you very much to everyone and congratulations to Emily for the amazing image."
The competition is once again open to images of a biological nature, in the widest possible sense, submitted by undergraduate and postgraduate students in Biological Sciences. Send your images (3 maximum) to hsprize@soton.ac.uk by May 31 2017.
The Imaging and Microscopy centre is now offering fluorescence microscopy, histological specimen prep equipment and colour microscopy at SGH.
We have two fluorescence microscopes that are also equipped with colour cameras located in LD76 And the following specimen prep equipment: Tissue processor, Embedding station, microtome, Vibratome, cryostat. All of these are found in LD79.
All facility equipment must be pre-booked using the Imaging and Microscopy centre online booking calendar.
Contact Georgie Dawes for further details.
Dr Hans Schuppe was head of Biological Sciences' Imaging Facility until 2013 and was instrumental in developing it into the state-of-the-art Facility it is today. The Hans Schuppe Image Prize is established in his memory, and is open to every undergraduate and postgraduate in Biological Sciences annually.
Images related to biology were submitted ranging from photomicrographs to photographs of wildlife and the environment.
Biological Sciences is please to announce and congratulate the winner Emily Farthing, and the runner up, Lilly Mendes da Costa. Emily's image will be displayed in B85 for a year.
Bioluminescence using high-signal novel luciferases such a NanoLuc allows long duration time-lapse imaging of dynamic processes such as circadian rhythms while eradicating problems like as photo-toxicity and bleaching. Use of a bi-partite enzyme as a reporter also allows the in vivo investigation of protein complex formation and localisation.
Contact Mark Willett for further details.
Imaging data can now be accessed from any university workstation via a fast network drive or via any other PC via a VPN connection. At present the SP8 confocal and the Axioplan2 and Axiovert 200 widefield microscopes are connected to this service. Please contact me for connection details, and I'll post a link with full connection information for university users shortly.
We are pleased to announce the installation of the new Leica SP8 inverted confocal microscope. This is a high-spec instrument with many new features compared to the old SP2. Please see our equipment section for full specification and contact Mark if you have any questions or to book training.
Following a number of teething issues, the Deltavision Elite widefield deconvolution system is now up and running. The Deltavision is a fully automated programmable system that features state-of-the-art specifications and is particularly good for live imaging. The system also features mosaic panel imaging, point-to-point imaging, cell tracking and fast channel changes for ratiometric and high-speed live imaging. For the full specification please see our equipment section.
We are pleased to report that the replacement for the SP2 confocal system now has a confirmed delivery date of 22nd June 2015. The system will be based around the new Leica DMi8 inverted stand, and will feature an SP8 scanhead, 8 laser lines and a spectral detector with on-board spectral unmixing algorithm. The system will have three detectors, including a super-sensitive low noise gallium arsenide detector suitable for live imaging.
The new system will also be equipped with a glycerol objective which allows deeper specimen penetration while minimising distortion of the PSF in the Z-axis, allowing for much higher quality 3D images.
Following the award of an ERC grant, Dr. Sumeet Mahajan has started development of a SHG (Second Harmonic Generation) and multiphoton microscope system here at the IMC for both label-free and labelled deep-tissue imaging. The system will feature a reconfigurable open-table architecture and an inverted stand, so it should be relatively easy to adapt to specific imaging requirements.
The IMC is collaborating by supplying a Ti-Sapphire pulsed laser, and we hope to see the system available for booking in 6-8 months time.