2021 Small World in Motion Competition

Nurse cells (cyan) contract and shrink in response to myosin waves (red) as they transport their contents to the egg cell in a fruit fly egg chamber.

Dr. Jasmin Imran Alsous Jonathan Jackson , Adam Martin

Affiliation

Simons Foundation Flatiron Institute
Center for Computational Biology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Technique

Confocal

Magnifaction

40X (Objective Lens Magnification)