Announcing the 2025 CSCI Photo Contest Winners

Author(s): Sudha Guttikonda, Cheng Gong, Raju Tomer, Rene Hen, Christopher Makinson
PI: Christopher Makinson, PhD
Picture title: hiPSC-derived neuroimmune organoids
Description: Cortical organoids incorporated with microglia, color-coded by depth, obtained by pLSM-SCOPE imaging

Author(s): Yao Li
PI: Stephen H. Tsang, MD, PhD
Picture title: iPSC-derived retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells revived human postmortem photoreceptors
Description: Human postmortem rod (Green color) and cone (Magenta color) photoreceptors revived and maintained on human iPSC-derived RPE monolayers (Red color)

Author and PI: David M. Owens, PhD
Picture title: The touch dome niche
Description: 3D reconstruction of the touch dome niche showing tdTomato+ keratinocyte stem cells (red) and Krt8+ Merkel cells (blue)

Honorable Mention (featured in this year's CSCI Holiday Card)

Author(s): Brian Heubel, Ben Wesely, Ruiyuan Zhang
PI(s): Emmanuelle Passegue, PhD and Jellert Gaublomme, PhD
Picture title: Hi-plex capture of bone marrow remodeling
Description: Section of a mouse femur with 21 unique labels 8 days after 5-Fluorouracil treatment, highlighting the dynamic change of the bone marrow niche in response to challenge