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Instruct-Image Competition Winners Announced

14-Dec-2023

Instruct-ERIC is delighted to announce the winners of its image competition, Razvan Borza of the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, and Joshua White of the Astbury Centre at University of Leeds!

The winning images are shown below, and can also be seen on the Instruct website homepage.

 

Razvan Borza

Razvan is a PhD student at NKI – their stunning image of Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) on DNA (PDB - 7RPX) was made in Blender 3.6.

You can see more on Razvan’s work here.

PCNA is a protein used by NKI for their research – find out more about NKI and access their services here.

 

Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) on DNA.

 

Joshua White

Joshua is a cryo-EM scientist at the Astbury Centre – their Cryo-EM research led to this great image of a utilisome, which mediates glycan uptake in human gut bacteria. The image was then created by Jeroen Claus (and team) at Phospho Biomedical Animation. Josh is a former member of the Ranson Lab at the facility.

Find out more about the paper here.

Researchers can access the technology used by Joshua for their structural biology projects at the Astbury Centre – find out more here.

 

Utilisome on bacterial outer membrane.