GDBBS Competition Winners

Winners of the GDBBS / ICI image competitions held every year as part of the DSAC lead Student Research Symposium.

The next competition is in 2024!

GDBBS Image Competition 2023

1st Place Winner - Samantha Lanjewa, Sloane Lab, Department of Human Genetics at Emory

2nd Place winner- Taylor Pio, Andersen Lab, Department of Human Genetics at Emory

3rd Place winner-Tina Tian, Ward Lab, Department of Cell Biology at Emory

Video Winner- Matthew Stern, Gross Lab, Department of Neurosurgery at Emory.

GDBBS Competition 2022

First Place Winner-Cary Jansen, Kissick Lab, Department of Neurology, Emory University

Second Place Winner- Colby Schweibenz, Moberg Lab, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University

Runner up- Rebecca Parker, Gilbert-Ross Lab, Winship/Hematology Medical Oncology

Runner up-Tana Pottorf. Alvarez Lab, Cell Biology and Physiology, Emory University

Runner up- Tina Tian, Ward Lab, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University

GDBBS Competition 2021

1st Place Winner - Lauren Askew Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology, Jones Lab

2nd Place Winner - Kun Lin

Runner Up - Chad Camp Molecular and Systems Pharmacology, Traynelis Lab

Runner Up - Tala Khatib Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology, Marcus Lab

Runner Up - Dominick Hellen Genetics and Molecular Biology

Runner Up - Stephanie Foster Neuroscience, Weinshenker Lab

GDBBS Competition 2020

Technical - Cell Winner - Emily Summerbell Marcus Lab, Cancer Biology

GDBBS Competition 2020 Technical - Non Cell

Technical - Non Cell - Daniel Lustberg Weinshenker Lab, Human Genetics

Nature - Xingwen Loy Brosi Lab, Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution

Artistic - Pooja Srinivas Dunham Lab, Biochemistry

Video - Stephanie Pollitt Zheng Lab, Cell Biology

GDBBS Competition 2019

1st Place - Emily Summerbell Marcus Lab, Cancer Biology Tubulin (purple) and DNA (blue) in cancer cells

2nd Place - Michael Brandon Ware Lesinski Lab, Cancer Biology Fibroblast Activating Protein alpha (FAP) staining of a pancreatic stellate (star-like) cell isolated from a pancreatic tumor

Runner Up - Joanna Perez Lerit Lab, Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology Confocal image showing pole cell budding in early Drosophila embryos. Nuclei is stained with DAPI (cyan). Cell boundaries staining is shown in red and germline specific marker, Vasa, is shown in yellow

Runner Up - Brian Pedro Marcus Lab, Cancer Biology A single H1299 non-small cell lung cancer cell, labeled with SiR-Actin live-cell dye and imaged via STED super-resolution microscopy

Runner Up - Alyssa Scott Katz Lab, Genetics and Molecular Biology Skeletal Prep- This is a whole-mount skeletal preparation of a postnatal day 0 mouse that has been stained with Alcian Blue and Alizarin Red to identify cartilage and bone, respectively

Runner Up - Cara Schiavon Kahn Lab, Cancer Biology MEFs fixed and stained for nuclei, microtubules, and Rods and Rings, imaged by confocal

GDBBS Competition 2018

1st Place - Kyle Gerber Hepler Lab 3D projection of z-stacks taken on a confocal scope of the F-actin cytoskeleton of a dissociated hippocampal mouse neuron in culture visualized using transiently transfected LifeAct-Ruby.