The Four Seasons of the Invisible
Participate in the Four Seasons of the Invisible, Euro-BioImaging’s first imaging contest!
Join us to celebrate the four seasons seen through the prism of imaging devices: electron micrographs of flu virus or changes in chloroplast structure in decaying leaves for autumn, ice crystal images or brown fat depletion during hibernation for winter, microscopic pollen tubes or CT images of lungs affected by hay fever for spring, and plankton blooms or heat shock proteins for summer, and much more! Only your imagination is the limit.
Who can participate?
This image contest is open to all members of the Euro-BioImaging Community and beyond. Any imaging scientist involved in scientific imaging and research fields worldwide. The contest has four quarterly sessions, each corresponding to a season. The dates for each session are indicated below.
Register, fill out the form and upload your entries!
You can submit as many entries as you want per season. All scientific imaging techniques and research fields are welcome. To qualify for the contest, submitted images must be captured using a microscope or another imaging device. Macrophotography is not allowed. Individual images or image stacks (of spatial, temporal, or higher dimensionality) can be submitted and must follow the technical requirements below.
What can I win?
At the end of each seasonal session, a panel chooses one quarterly winner and one runner-up. Quarterly winners get their travel expenses reimbursed for the next science conference or event they attend up to the limit of 1000€ (upon presentation of expense receipts). Quarterly runner-ups get their travel expenses reimbursed for the next science conference or event they attend up to the limit of 500€ (upon presentation of expense receipts). The selected images will be published on the Euro-BioImaging website and on the organization’s social media channels.
Image requirements
Each entry must include:
- A descriptive title.
- A narrative explanation of how the image aligns with the seasonal theme.
- Technical details and appropriate metadata regarding the imaging technology utilised and the sample; including magnification, imaging method, sample description, stains, labels, tracers etc.
- The entrants title, first name, and last name.
- Affiliation details (e.g., research institution, Euro-BioImaging Node).
- Acknowledgements, if applicable (e.g., funding sources, collaborators).
All submitted images must follow the following technical specifications:
- Still images: Resolution not exceeding 1500 pixels in width; JPEG format.
- Videos: Resolution not exceeding 720 pixels in width; MP4 format.
Contest timeline
Spring Session: 31 March – 20 June 2025
Summer Session: 21 June – 21 September 2025
Autumn Session: 22 September – 20 December 2025
Winter Session: 21 December 2025 – 20 March 2026
Detailed rules can be found here.
The Four Seasons of the Invisible / Spring 2025
Submissions are open until 21st June 2025 01:00 CET.
You can submit your entry below. Please read carefully the contest rules here.
We remind you that if your entry is a still image, it should be 1500 px wide at the maximum in JPEG format. Moving images should be 720 px wide at the maximum in MP4. Good luck!