In dead last place, we have "The 4 horses of the apocalypse". It's a seahorse look-n-find piece within a pseudocolored MRI of my own brain that I got from a research study I participated in.
3rd/4th place was close to a tie. One of place 3/4 was "Hippocampus: A Greek Seahorse", a digital drawing by undergrad researcher Sakthi Senthilvelan which mixes a nod to our new masking habits and a multicolored seahorse overlay on the human brain.
The next piece is place 3/4 is "Abstract Word Cloud of Kirby lab terms in the shape of DG with CA regions" by postdoc Jiyeon Denninger. This piece clusters Kirby lab-associated words (from stem cell to coffee) within a hippocampal framework.
1st/2nd place was also close but there were prizes on the line so we had to count every last vote. 2nd place is "Your SGZ on food" by grad student Tyler Dause. Here, Tyler shows us rep images of stem and progenitor cells in the adult rodent SGZ using common food items.
Finally, first place goes to "The Big Neuron" by grad student Josh Rieskamp. This is "Strava art" that Josh created by GPS-tracking himself as he ran 32.9 mi last week. Note the soma has a nucleus and if you look extra close, a pond within the nucleus creates a nucleolus.
Credit for the idea for this competition goes to Kirby lab postdoc Jiyeon Denninger. It was a fun group activity for our distant times. Well done, everyone!
Somehow the first tweet got deleted from this thread. This is the first ever Kirby lab art competition!
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