As usual, during our AFM training course , we ran an image competition, challenging the students to submit images they had acquired or processed during the course.

This year, the standard was very high, and we could not decide between two of the entries, so two prizes have been awarded.

The overall prize goes to the image below of E. coli bacteria which was produced by Dr. Cassandra Terry of UCL, London. The processing on this makes was excellent!

We could not go without giving a prize to this image of double-stranded  DNA molecules obtained by Dr. Elin Moe of ITQB, Lisbon. This image, below, won our technical merit prize. Acquiring such an image in your first session with an AFM is impressive!

Congratulations to both, your prizes will be with you soon!