Spooky season is approaching!
Submit your spookiest, scariest or bloodiest lab images. No matter whether your experiment is haunted or spiders have invaded your microscope, all halloween/autumn themed entries are welcome and creativity is key!
Congratulations to our winner!
Congratulations to Dawid Warmus (Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern) on winning our Halloween contest with his spooky ghost microscopy image.
Thank you to all participants for the haunting entries, which can be viewed below.
Halloween contest entries
Pierpaolo Ranieri
EPFL
Potassium niobate TEM lamella was observed using bright-field TEM to study the ferroelectric domains of the material. However, a spider appeared due to diffraction contrast.
Elda Cannavo
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona
A Skull appeared inside my tube while doing an in vitro assay....my experiment was cursed from the beginning!
Dawid Warmus
University of Bern
Through the lens of confocal fluorescent microscopy, Giardia lamblia's cytosolic protein eerily resembles a ghost.
Shivali Dongre
Université de Lausanne
This scanning electron micrograph of a 2-day-old zebrafish embryo, caught in a perpetual frozen scream, mirrors the sheer horror of a researcher discovering their 96-well PCR was set up… without the reverse primer.
Nishant Jana
EPFL
"The ghost of the PI returned to the lab" ~ taken at my previous lab in Manipal, India
Yoëlle Hilbers
Université de Lausanne
Using a red fluorescent seed coat marker, I can easily identify Arabidopsis seeds expressing my construct of interest. In this image, the positive seeds are arranged to spell out "Boo!".
Anonymous
University of Geneva
In this spooktacular image, we witness the ghostly world of cellular biology come to life! HeLa cells, dressed up as green glowing ghosts (X-GFP protein), are caught mid-scream as they realize their endoplasmic reticulum (ER) has been turned into a haunted house (mCherry-B1-4-Galactosyltransferase staining).
The Lattice SIM² microscope, our trusty paranormal investigator, reveals this cellular horror story in spine-tingling detail.