The finalists of QUT’s annual Research in Focus multimedia competition once again creatively shed light on the university’s diverse research.
Winners of the 2022 competition will be announced this Thursday during a showcase at The Cube (4:30-6 p.m.) on the Gardens Point campus, including the People’s Choice award (voting via Facebook ends Tuesday at 11:59 p.m.).
A jury sifted through this year’s entries to shortlist the next 10 finalists.
QUT Research in Focus 2022 Finalists
Dusan Bojic – SpiroArtis Image: This artwork was made from the breath of a teenage patient with respiratory disease, using SpiroArtis – the world’s first interactive art-based health technology platform, founded by QUT Creative Industries PhD student Dusan Bojic as a creative medium. to add an incentive for lung volume testing.
Vedad Dzanic – Hypnotic Dance of Polymers: Animation shows the digital simulation of a viscoelastic fluid (a solvent fluid mixed with polymer additives) flowing past cylindrical obstacles. When polymers stretch excessively, viscoelastic fluids enter a chaotic state, called elastic turbulence. (Click on the image below to watch the video.)
Fazeleh Etebar – Eye Blossoms: This is a fluorescence confocal microscopy image of a mouse retina showing a layer at the back of the eye. Colors represent vasculature (gold) and microglia (blue).
Konstantin Faershteyn – Frozen Fractals All Around: The rapid solidification of salt often results in a characteristic tree-like structure of crystals – dendritic structures – as seen in this scanning electron microscope image. This multi-branched shape is also typical of snowflakes or “frozen fractals”.
John Griffin – The Next Generation: This is a fern sorus on the QUT’s Gardens Point campus, showing the specimen’s native fluorescence under microscope lasers. The image shows the capabilities of one of QUT’s advanced imaging platforms.
Lisa Kearney – Keeping It Together: This is a multi-element map of reef rock produced with the Tescan TIMA scanning electron microscope at QUT’s Central Analytical Research Facility. TIMA produces large-scale maps that can be used to observe samples at different scales. Like research students, coral reefs often try to stick together, finding support in a unique community around them.
Kristen Maloney – Ghost Story: This is a cross-industry collaboration between performance and computer programming to create innovative augmented performance. This new form of digital performance integrates live performance and augmented reality and is experienced via a smartphone application. (Click on the image below to watch the video.)
Flavia Medeiros Savi – Osteons in Brief: This scanning electron microscope image shows a “region of interest” of a 3 cm tibial bone defect, reconstructed with a medical grade polycaprolactone scaffold in combination with a corticoperiosteal flap. The image shows the new bone tissue being built and the network of osteocytes distributed around the Havers canal.
Jayanti Mendhi – Stay Hungry, But Don’t Stay Foolish: Macrophages are a class of immune cells called “phagocytes,” a word of Greek origin meaning “the cell that eats or devours.” This is an electron microscopy image showing bacteria (in pink) engulfed by an activated macrophage cell. The goal of this research study was to understand how an antimicrobial coating that successfully killed bacteria impacted the ability of macrophages to eat those bacteria.
Akhilandeshwari Ravichandran – Illuminating Cancers: This GeoMx digital spatial profiler scan shows the tumor region of a tissue section from a patient with triple negative breast cancer, illuminated with fluorescent morphological markers – PanCK (green , cancer cells), DNA (blue, all cells), SMA (yellow), and CD31 (red endothelial cells).
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