ϲappImagers Take Honors in Microscopy Contests
![Dinosaur bone](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_1000x325/public/2023-11/1200%20Dinosaur%20bone%20taken%20with%20polychromatic%20polarization%20microscope%20Credit%20Michael%20Shribk.jpg?itok=T3tu39fc)
An image from the MBL's Central Microscopy Facility won first place in a prestigious microscopy contest this year, while Michael Shribak, senior scientist in the MBL's Bell Center, received recognition in three imaging contents over the past few months!
placed first in the 2023 contest. Submitted from the ϲappby Derrick Kamp of University of Connecticut, it shows the squid Euprymna berryi and its glowing symbiont, a marine bacterium:
![E berryi squid](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2023-11/1200%20Hatchling%20Euprymna%20berryi%20squid%20%28rainbow%29%20with%20its%20bacterial%20symbiont%20%28Vibrio%20fischeri%29%20in%20white%20in%20the%20squid%20light%20organ%20Credit%20Derrick-Kamp.jpg?itok=nHk7sQPp)
Shribak took third place in the BioImaging North America Contest for his label-free image of a mouse sagittal section (below, d). He also submitted other beautiful images, including of t and of .
![mouse sagittal](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2023-11/1200%20brighter%20mouse_10x_p_-15_435_45mm.X30mm_3-1%20Credit%20MIchael%20Shribak.jpg?itok=BNiTilbh)
This week, Shribak learned he had placed second in the HOOKed on Microscopy Contest, sponsored by Clemson University in South Carolina, for his image, "Dinosaur Bones" (below and top).
![Dinosaur bone](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2023-11/1200%20Dinosaur%20bone%20taken%20with%20polychromatic%20polarization%20microscope%20Credit%20Michael%20Shribk_0.jpg?itok=dZ0YGeXj)
And one more: Shribak received an Honorable Mention in the 2022 , sponsored by Olympus Life Sciences (now called Evident). He was recognized for his i
![Diatom credit Michael Shribak](/sites/default/files/styles/full_content/public/2023-11/800%20Diatom_Michael_Shribak.jpg?itok=D5BNkyWp)
Congratulations!