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Pin-ItLocomotion of freely walking Drosophila adults is captured with a 200 frames per second camera. A technique is being developed that allows computer-assisted, rapid tracking of the walking fly and auto-identify its legs. Spatial and temporal parameters of leg placement and coordination can be measured easily by to auto-annotating swing/stance events for each leg. No a priori labelling of legs is necessary in this technique.
2014 Small World In Motion Competition
Honorable Mention
Tracking the locomotion of a fruit fly
Pushkar Paranjpe
- Location
- Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Technique
200 frames/second. Uniformly white background illumination is achieved with diffuser coupled LED lamp.
- Magnification
- 10x
Honorable Mention
Chitosan micromotors in water and hydrogen peroxide
Xi Lu
- Affiliation
- University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland, USA
- Technique
- Macroscope
Honorable Mention
Aplysia (sea slug) neuron
Dr. Masha Prager-Khoutorsky
- Affiliation
- McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Technique
- Confocal
- Magnification
- 100x
Cultured Aplysia (sea slug) neuron lamella, expressing end binding protein 3 conjugated to GFP.
Top 20
Honorable Mentions
Judges
Paul Maddox
Assistant Professor and William Burwell Harrison Fellow University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Biology
Paul S. Maddox, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor and William Burwell Harrison Fellow, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Dr. Maddox completed his Ph.D. under the mentorship of renowned cell biology microscopist E. D. Salmon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His current research interests include using light microscopy to understand chromosome and microtubule dynamics. Dr. Maddox’s experimental philosophy mandates using the light microscope to “see” results in the most quantitative manner possible. Dr. Maddox has over 19 years of experience with light microscopy and has been an instructor in light microscopy courses around the world including Europe, South America, and at the Marine Biological Labs in Woods Hole, USA. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers in his career.
