Scientific Figure Competition 2025
2025 Competition Results:
Division I: Graduate Students
Top vote: Boyu Jiang (Graduate Student member with affiliate Baloni Lab at Purdue)
Faculty advisor: Priyanka Baloni
Other authors: Anke Tukker, Hyunjin Kim, Shuang Wang, Juexin Wang, Aaron Bowman
Division II: Postdocs and Research Staff
Top vote: Maria Unger (Postdoc Scholar member in the Zartman Lab at Notre Dame)
Adviser: Jeremiah J. Zartman, University of Notre Dame
Co-authors: Vijay Velagala, Dharsan K. Soundarrajan, David Gazzo, Nilay Kumar, Marycruz Flores Flores, Jinwen Liu, Jun Li, Jeremiah J. Zartman
Collaboration: Nilay Kumar, Purdue University
View the Figure by Maria Unger
Thank you to all who have made submissions:
|
Division |
First and Last Name: |
ID# |
Slide # |
Research Thrust |
Type |
|
II |
Nilay Kumar/Linlin Li/Chang Ding/David Gazzo/Naomi Ross/Maria Unger |
PD1 |
2 |
CORE + 2 + 3 |
Figure |
|
II |
Sharon Minsuk |
PD2 |
3 |
CORE + 3 |
Video |
|
II |
Maria Unger |
PD3 |
4 |
2 |
Figure |
|
I |
Bakary Samasa |
G1 |
5 |
3 |
Video |
|
I |
David Gazzo |
G2 |
6 |
2 |
Figure |
|
I |
Agnes Doszpoly |
G3 |
7 |
1 |
Figure |
|
I |
Boyu Jiang |
G4 |
8 |
CORE |
Figure |
Competition Voting Instructions:
View the figures and videos by downloading the PowerPoint file and clicking through the submissions. Be sure to set the powerpoint to Slide Show, and play the videos that are on slide 3 and 5.
Voting is open until Thursday night midnight, September 4th. Voting is anonymous, but please vote only once. There are two divisions to vote for:
I: Graduate Students
II: Postdocs and Research Scientist Staff
Evaluation criteria
Evaluate each figure or video by considering the criteria below. Choose your top choice in each division:
- Impact and innovation
- Originality and novelty
- Degree to which the figure or video conveys or explains the data, mechanism, process or method
- Degree of Integration with EMBRIO authors
Vote Here (Open until Thurday night 11:59PM September 4th)
2024 Competition Results:
Graduate Division First Place: Bakary Samasa (Mullins Lab, UPenn)
Postdoctoral/Research Scientist Division First Place (Tie): Sharon Minsuk (Glazier Lab, IU) and Weiwei Zhang (Staiger Lab, Purdue).
View the winning submissions (pptx)
Read news about the winning submissions and authors (September 13, 2024 news article)
Submissions in 2024 from:
|
Division |
First and Last Name: |
Slide # |
Research Thrust |
Type |
|
I |
Bakary Samasa |
3 |
3 |
Figure |
|
I |
Shelly Tan |
4 |
3 |
Video |
|
I |
Chang Ding |
5 |
3 |
Video |
|
I |
Deiver Suárez Gómez |
6 |
CORE |
Figure |
|
I |
Abasiafak Udosen |
7 |
4 |
Figure |
|
II |
Sharon Minsuk |
8 |
CORE |
Video |
|
II |
Weiwei Zhang |
9 |
2 |
Video |