“Progenitor cells in the developing mouse synovial joint.”
As the winning entries in the 2015 “Art in Science” competition again demonstrate, Penn Med’s graduate students and postdoctoral trainees often keep an eye open for the elegant design, the engaging combination of shapes and colors, the arresting image.
In the Postdoctoral Fellow Category, the winner is Rebekah S. Decker, Ph.D., in the laboratory of Maurizio Pacifici, Ph.D., director of orthopaedic research at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Decker’s image is “Progenitor cells in the developing mouse synovial joint.”
Two shared the top honor in the Graduate Student Category. Jonathan Madara is in the lab of Bruce D. Freedman, V.M.D., Ph.D., associate professor in Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine and a member of the faculty of the Perelman School’s Biomedical Graduate Studies program. Madara’s image is “Ebola virus-like particle budding,” done in collaboration with Ronald A. Harty, Ph.D., professor of pathobiology and microbiology, and Gordon Ruthel, a resource technologist, both in the Veterinary Medicine school.
The other graduate student winner is John Martin, M.S., in the lab of Robert Mauck, Ph.D., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery. Martin’s image is “Stem-cell seeded engineered intervertebral disc in polarized light.”