1st Place<br />Dr. Mariana Muzzopappa with Jim Swoger <br />Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona<br />Barcelona, Spain<br />The development of the zebrafish lateral line, the organ that senses water movements in the fish. <br />4D SPIM (Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy)<br />20x/0.5<br /><br />Developing zebrafish lateral line (a sensory organ analogous to the mammalian inner ear that senses water movements in the fish). This organ develops from a primordium that starts migrating and deposits a group of cells called neuromasts, that contain mechanosensory hair cells and support cells. A combination of transgenic lines was used to label undifferentiated and support cells (membrane Tomato) and track hair cell development (cytoplasmic GFP) for 36 hrs. <br />
