Drosophila research image and video awards presented at ADRC 2017

The Drosphila Image Award honors "striking" research image that "that clearly conveys a point of important biological information in Drosophila research." A similar award is presented in the area of video. This year's awardees were announced at the recent ADRC 2017 in San Diego, CA.  The honorees are listed below. See the images and videos from 2017 and past years at the Drosophila Image Award website.

 

Award winners:
Helen Weavers, for her video ‘Systems Analysis of the Dynamic Inflammatory Response to Tissue Damage’
Yali Zhang, for her image of ‘The basis of food texture sensation in Drosophila’.

Runners-up:
Yusuke Hara, for his video ‘Non-invasive Tension Estimation during the Early Stage of Dorsal Closure’
Tvisha Misra, for her image illustrating that different cellular hypoxic states correlate with tracheal supply in the brain.