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2026

Agilent BioTek Imaging Perspectives Contest

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Our customers are using the Agilent BioTek Lionheart automated microscopes, and BioTek Cytation cell imaging multimode readers for their own unique research and in the process acquire beautiful, publication quality images and movies. Here’s your chance to show the world what you are working on, and to share the art and beauty that’s often found in science. Submit your favorite images that you’ve captured using a BioTek Cytation or Lionheart imager and submit your entry today!

You could win one of three cash prizes, in addition to the chance for your image to be featured in the BioTek Imaging Perspectives 2027 calendar.

  • 1st Place: $1,000 USD
  • 2nd Place: $500 USD
  • 3rd Place: $250 USD
To get your creative juices flowing, here are the top three photos from last year:  

Submit your images
hiPSC-derived motor neurons

Thomas Krzystek
ALS Therapy Development Institute 

hiPSC-derived motor neurons expressing TdTomato under a VACHT promoter were cultured as spheroids (~50K cells/spot) in the presence of neurotrophic growth factors. Captured with the Agilent BioTek Cytation C10 confocal imaging reader.

Mouse embryo section immunolabelled for developmental proteins

Loydie Jermoe-Majewska
Cold Spring Harbor Labs, McGill University 

Mouse embryo section immunolabelled for developmental proteins Foxm, Mdm, Wnt, etc. as well as DAPI and Actin. Captured with the Agilent BioTek Cytation C10 confocal imaging reader.

 

Spheroid composed of basal cells

Sarah Metzger
Institute of Virology, Charite, Universitatsmedizin Berlin

Spheroid composed of basal cells in the center surrounded by ciliated cells. Cells are immunolabelled for ACE2 (red) and AcTub (green) to specifically stain the ciliated cells with DAPI (blue) labelling nuclei. Captured with the Agilent BioTek Cytation 5 cell imaging multimode reader.

Submit your images

Download and read the full contest rules at the link above. Then complete this form to receive directions for submitting images. 

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