Fish Technique

Dr. Albert Pan

2005

National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California

San Diego, CA, USA

Specimen: Rat brain cerebellum

Technique: Multiphoton photography, 300x

Dr. Albert Pan

2009

Cambridge, MA, USA

Specimen: Zebrafish tail sensory axons

Technique: Confocal

Ms. Haruka Fujimaki

2009

Bryant Pond, ME, USA

Specimen: Atlantic salmon embryos

Technique: Stereomicroscopy

Dr. Philipp Keller

2014

HHMI Janelia Research Campus

Ashburn, VA, USA

Specimen: Neural activity in an entire zebrafish brain in vivo. The video, which shows fast 3D recordings of the entire larval brain (ca. 100,000 neurons), depicts, for the first time, an almost exhaustive view of single-neuron activity in the brain of a living vertebrate

Technique: Custom-built simultaneous multi-view light sheet microscopy

Co-prizewinners: Fernando Amat and Misha Ahrens