Image contest winners
We are happy to announce the winners of the 2025 Light Microscopy Image Contest. This year’s entries were truly excellent, which made judging both fun and challenging.
We would like to thank everyone who submitted an entry and the individuals who voted — a total of 167 people. From every perspective, it was an outstanding year.
The winners:
- People’s Choice: Edgar Diaz Miranda, Lei Lei’s lab
- Experts’ Choice: Varun Dwivedi, Craig Schenck’s lab and Soyon Park, Soyon Park lab
- The Jurkevich Technical Award: Shin-ichiro Agake, Gary Stacey’s lab
The ALMC holds its annual image contest to showcase the work of core users and generate broader interest in the core's capabilities. Participating researchers submit their best images taken with any ALMC instrument.
See People’s Choice winners since 2001.
Mission statement
The ALMC is a shared resource for all types of light microscopy, including widefield, confocal, super-resolution and stereomicroscopy. The core provides access to state-of-the-art instruments, imaging technologies, services, training and expert consultation supporting the educational and research missions of the University of Missouri. The core is open to the entire University of Missouri community as well as to researchers from other academic institutions and companies in the area.
Scheduling
We are open 8 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and closed on university holidays.
Our calendar provides an easy way to view available time slots. To make an appointment, please check for instrument availability on the calendars listed then call 882-4895 to make a reservation for the time and instrument you wish to use.