An image depicting protein structures driving along a circuit board highway and set against a binary code background took first place in this year’s Proteomics Photo and Graphic Art Contest.
Graphic designer Andrew Bureta from Dave Pagliarini’s lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison submitted the winning entry and will receive the prize of 1000 Euros. In addition, he will have his image published on the cover of Journal of Proteomics.
Each year, the European Proteomics Association organizes the contest to increase public awareness of how proteomics contributes to the study of human health and disease. This year, the group sponsored the contest in collaboration with the British Society for Proteome Research, the Portuguese Proteomics Association, and the Associação Viver a Ciência.
Earlier this year, participants were asked to submit images that were aesthetically pleasing and related to proteomics. The submissions included images captured using a variety of proteomics techniques, including imaging mass spectrometry, microscopy, protein separation, sequencing, and cell and tissue imaging. Then, an international jury that included both scientific and artistic experts narrowed the field down to 20 finalists. Finally, the public voted for their favorite online from June 1-July 10, 2012 and at the 2012 EuPA Meeting at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, where the images were on display, from July 9-12, 2012.
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2012 EuPA Proteomics Photo and Graphic Art Contest Winners
1. “Digital proteins,” submitted by Andrew Bureta from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2. “Diagnostic blood test for the detection of colorectal cancer,” submitted by Silvia Surinova and Katarzyna Nowak from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
3. “Spot by spot,” submitted by Christian Koehler from the University of Oslo in Norway.
And the other finalists were:
- “Supercomplexity,”
submitted by Adam Byron from the University of Manchester in the UK.
- “RNR: a
well-recognized target for cancer chemotherapeutic and antiviral agent,”
submitted by Marta Perez Gomes from the the University of Porto in
Portugal.
- “The proteomics
pathway,” submitted by Adam Byron from the University of Manchester
in the UK.
- “Proteins create
beautiful patterns,” submitted by Willy Toiviainen from the Finnish
Red Cross Blood Service in Finland.
- “Bead painting: a new
form of action painting,” submitted by Raquel Bartolome from the
University of Salamanca in Spain.
- “Neutral loss,”
submitted by Andrew Bureta from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- “The detection of
disease proteins in blood,” submitted by Silvia Surinova and
Katarzyna Nowak from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
- “Dendritic crystals,”
submitted by Adam Byron from the University of Manchester in the UK.
- “STK3 protein in A431
cell during mitosis,” submitted by Charlotte Stradler from the Cell
Profiling Science for Life Laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden.
- “In Line,”
submitted by Christian Koehler from the University of Oslo in Norway.
- “Plasma 2DE image,”
submitted by Emami Kaveh from Newcastle University in Newcastle, UK.
- “Cell comparison,”
submitted by Andrew Bureta from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- “QuantMode tablets,”
submitted by Andrew Bureta from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- “The cell globe,”
submitted by Vittoria Metafora from San Raffaele Hospital in Milano,
Italy.
- “Spot-omics,”
submitted by Christian Moritz from the University of Kaiserslautern in
Germany.
- “MR and MS of MCF-7
cells,” submitted by Erika Lattová from the University of Manitoba
in Winnipeg, Canada.
- “Focal adhesion sites in A431,” submitted by Charlotte Stradler from the Cell Profiling Science for Life Laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden.
