2020 Small World in Motion Competition

Daniel Castranova is a research technician at the NIH in Bethesda MD, and the Nikon Small World first place winner in the still imaging competition (Daniel is having a VERY good year). Mr. Castranova's winning Small World in Motion movie captures the first 22 hours of the development of a developing transgenic zebrafish embryo. This movie combined transmitted light and confocal imaging to beautifully illustrate the blood vessels developing from a single cell. He says that “keeping a fertilized egg alive, happy and oriented properly throughout early development requires both luck and skill” (we think the luck part bears a strong correlation to the skill part).