Archive for April, 2019

VIZBI 2019 in Gigascience

Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

VIZBI 2019 was featured in a recent blog from Gigascience Database! GigaScience Data Scientist Chris Armit was at VIZBI 2019 and has provided a detailed summary of highlights that were showcased over the 3-day meeting. You can read the article here: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/visualising-biological-data-vizbi/

VIZBI X 2019 Autodesk Award for Best Art and Biology Image

Friday, April 5th, 2019

The image selected by VIZBI X delegates for the VIZBI 2019 Autodesk award for best Art and Biology award was Chromosome Segregation by Beata Edyta Mierzwa of The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA. Beata was awarded a 3 year subscription to commercial Autodesk Maya (worth over US$4,000).

VIZBI 2019 Scientific Poster – Runner-up Award

Thursday, April 4th, 2019

The award for Runner-up Scientific Poster at VIZBI 2019 was won by ‘Visualizing the tree of science‘, presented by Andreas Harmuth, Mike Bogetofte Barnkob, and Lars Rønn Olsen from the Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark. Congratulations to the team! They receive an Amazon gift voucher generously provided by the EMBL courses and conference office.

Winner of VIZBI 2019 Best Scientific Poster Award

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019

The award for Best Scientific Poster at VIZBI 2019 was won by ‘Communicating Scientific Concepts Through Art‘, presented by Beata Edyta Mierzwa from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and University of California San Diego in La Jolla, USA. Congratulations Beata! She receives a PeerJ Award, which includes a free publication and blog entry to be featured on PeerJ. She also wins an Amazon gift voucher generously provided by the EMBL courses and conference office.