{"id":823,"date":"2015-04-29T13:24:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T13:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/footage-of-zebrafishs-inner-ear-development-wins-science-video-prize\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T07:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T07:44:11","slug":"footage-of-zebrafishs-inner-ear-development-wins-science-video-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/footage-of-zebrafishs-inner-ear-development-wins-science-video-prize","title":{"rendered":"Footage of zebrafish’s ‘inner ear’ development wins science video prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nikon International Small World Competition<\/a> announced on April 27 the\u00a0winners of the fourth annual Nikon Small World in Motion Photomicrography Competition<\/a>, which aims at bringing to the fore the cutting-edge techniques of scientific imaging.\u00a0According to the press release, this year’s prize was awarded to Dr. Mariana Muzzopappa of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona; and Jim Swoger of the Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, for their \u201cstunning capture of the development of a zebrafish lateral line \u2013 a process that could provide insight into curing deafness in humans.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Nikon Small World competition invites entries that comprise \u201cany movie or digital time-lapse photography taken through the microscope and adds a new, distinct discipline to the competition,\u201d which are judged on “the basis of originality, informational content, technical proficiency and visual impact.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The prize-winning time-lapse footage was created by Dr. Muzzopappa and Swoger using\u00a0<\/span><\/span>an imaging technique called Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy<\/a>, which uses sheets of lights to illuminate sub-cellular activity. The pair\u00a0<\/span>demonstrated the development of the zebrafish lateral line, the human counterpart of the inner ear,<\/span>\u00a0which helps the fish sense movement in the water surrounding it. C<\/span>ombining transgenes in the fish and labeling undifferentiated and support cells, they tracked hair cell differentiation in zbrafish throughout a 36-hour timeframe that they presented in this short time-lapse video:<\/span><\/p>\n

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