Bruker Light-Sheet Image Competition: Spring 2025
Discover the light-sheet microscopy images that captured the judges’ praise
Bruker Image Competition Results Are In
Submissions Closed
The Bruker Light-Sheet Image Competition has officially concluded, thank you to everyone who participated. Image submissions using different Bruker light-sheet microscopes were received from around the world, capturing stunning images of whole organs, vasculature, organoids, and more!
We were thrilled by the creativity, technical excellence, and scientific storytelling in every submission. After careful review by our judges, we’re excited to announce the winners.
Competition Winners
First Place
Nolan Petrich, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Light-Shaped Future”
Intestinal organoids in 3D with nuclei color-coded in Z, highlighting photopatterned budding resembling intestinal architecture.
Second Place
Lieke Stockmann, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam & University of Copenhagen
“The Persistence of Connection”
Endogenously tagged KIF2A in a mouse embryonic stem cell colony.
Now published in Journal of Cell Biology (https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202409157).
Now published in Journal of Cell Biology (https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202409157).
Third Place
Birger Tielemans, KU Leuven
“LSFM Murine Lung Vasculature”