For those folks who spend most of our time looking at code, charts and graphs, it’s always fun to look at what folks are doing with imaging and microscopy. Advances in sequencing technology have changed the way we think about the microbial world, but the way we see the microbial world is also changing as technology improves.
To cap off 2014, there are a number of wonderful competitions that showcase particularly striking or important examples in scientific imaging and microscopy. Here are a few of them :