iCeMS Daily Photo Contest 2021の入賞者が決定しました
iCeMS Daily Photo Contestは、顕微鏡写真など、研究に関わる写真から、ラボでの日常の一コマなど、研究者の日常を身近に感じられるような写真をアイセムス メンバーから募り、アイセムス メンバーによる投票を経て入賞作品が決定するコンテストです。4回目となる今回は、20点の応募があり、総勢65名の投票によりグランプリが決定しました。今回、入賞作品を紹介します。
グランプリ

Chemiko-chan (研美子, the nickname), the 6-month-old baby girl, is reading the book introducing general relativity theory. Who can read such a complicated theory younger than me? Please challenge me.
優秀賞

'iCeMS' was painted on a glass slide with a hydrophobic coating. Drops of food dye in water reveal the coating.

This photo was taken from the Fukasawa Group's laboratory on January 1, 2021. Collaboration between First Sunrise and Rotary Evaporator.

The word Ferdous means paradise or garden. This photo is of Mount Yoshino-yama taken at the peak of spring 2021. The mountain in full sakura bloom feels like paradise.

Towards the end of the day, our new student Habib is preparing samples for spin coating.

Mechanoregulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell morphology on a DNA based Scaffold. Unique arrangement of nanocues on the DNA scaffold material resulted in the formation of a beautiful star shaped morphology of the mesenchymal stem cell. Confocal Microscope image. Stained: F-actin and nucleus