Euro-BioImaging Israel & IRCF is excited to announce a national Best Microscopy Image Contest with prizes for top winners.
Core facility scientists, researcher, students, and imaging enthusiasts from all fields are invited to submit their most compelling microscopy images.
All imaging modalities are welcome: light microscopy, super-resolution, EM, live-cell imaging, correlative imaging, and more.
Winning images will be presented during the IRCF session in Ilanit Conference.
Rules:
- Submissions must be received by: January 30, 2026
- The original/raw data should be available if requested
- AI generated images may not be submitted, and any use of AI should be disclosed
- Images must be acquired by the person submitting the image
- Image must be a single file in *.jpg or *.png format for compatibility purposes
- Image file must not exceed 10MB in size, and should be sufficiently high resolution for web viewing
- 1 submission is allowed per person
SUBMIT YOUR IMAGES FOR THE 2026 CONTEST HERE
Tips & Tricks
- Great resources for preparing images for publishing/sharing and reporting relevant imaging parameters include:
- Community-developed checklists for publishing images and image analyses. Nature Methods volume 21, 170–181 (2024)
- Montero Llopis, P., Senft, R.A., Ross-Elliott, T.J. et al. Best practices and tools for reporting reproducible fluorescence microscopy methods.Nat Methods 18, 1463–1476 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01156-w
- Marqués G, Pengo T, Sanders MA. Imaging methods are vastly underreported in biomedical research. Elife. 2020;9:e55133. Published 2020 Aug 11. doi:10.7554/eLife.55133
- Cromey DW. Avoiding twisted pixels: ethical guidelines for the appropriate use and manipulation of scientific digital images. Sci Eng Ethics. 2010;16(4):639-667. doi:10.1007/s11948-010-9201-y
- We recommend cropping the image, adjusting brightness and contrast, reporting any non-linear adjustments, including maximum projections and gamma adjustments, and adjusting color look up tables for artistic and eye-catching images.
- We recommend removing any additional layers on the image (including text labels and scale bars), but including full descriptions in the accompanying text.
If you have questions please contact us at rachel.elmoalem@weizmann.ac.il in advance of the submission deadline.