The NTP is proud to announce one of the recipients of the 2024 Cool Science Image Contest is our very own NTP faculty trainer, Erik Dent! Congratulations!
UW-Madison’s 14th annual Cool Image Science Contest winning entries showcase the research, innovation, scholarship and curiosity of the UW–Madison community and span a wide range of perception. Read more about the other winners here.
Professor Erik Dent works in the Department of Neuroscience and is interested in understanding how the central nervous system (CNS) develops and functions at the cellular level.
The winning photo displays a slice of mouse cortical tissue, ~20 days after birth. It was put together several years ago in collaboration with Kendra Taylor (a 2018 NTP graduate). Kendra transfected the mouse with green and red fluorescent proteins when it was an embryo and the transfected cells migrated from the bottom of the image (lateral ventricle) to the top (cortex) during 26 days of prenatal and postnatal development. Parts of the cell were labeled to track the way shifting protein levels affect migration.
You can see the image in the McPherson Eye Research Institute’s Mandelbaum and Albert Family Vision Gallery exhibit on the ninth floor of the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, 1111 Highland Ave until the end of 2024.