Meet the researcher behind the 2025 winning image

Our annual scientific Image Competition strives to showcase the beauty and intricacy of the life sciences through images captured in the lab and in the field. We had several exceptional submissions this year, ranging from pictures of zoanthids to fluorescent Klebsiella pneumoniae. This year, the winning image was Human neurons reprogrammed from skin cells, submitted by Bruno Cisterna. Bruno Cisterna is a neuroscientist and microscopist in the lab of Eric Vitriol at Augusta University (GA, USA). His research focuses on how the cytoskeleton contributes to neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease, using cell culture models derived...