Call for images: FocalPlane-ELMI2026 image competition

We are delighted to be collaborating the European Light Microscopy Initiative (ELMI) on our FocalPlane-EMLI2026 image competition. Enter your favourite microscopy images for your chance to win £200 and see your image on the cover of Journal of Cell Science. Voting for the shortlisted images will begin the week before ELMI2026 and continue through the conference, until we announce the winner on Friday 19 June, the final day of the meeting! Entries are open to everyone, whether you are attending ELMI or not.

Submission deadline: 18 May 2026

The scientific programme for ELMI2026 is available here. Registration for poster presentations is open until 31 May. Registration is limited and will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis, so book as soon as possible!

Competition details:

Email your image to focalplane@biologists.com with ‘FocalPlane-ELMI2026 image competition’ in the subject line.

You can submit up to three images.

• In the email, include a description of the image and imaging modality used to acquire the image or software used to reconstruct or analyse it.
• There is no theme and no restriction content-wise; it can be a raw, reconstructed, filtered or analysed image of any type of biological sample.
• Deadline for image submission is Monday 18 May 2026.
• The JCS cover guidelines on dimensions require a high-resolution file 23cm width by 24cm height, some cropping might occur in adapting the winning image.
• Submitted images should not have already been published elsewhere unless under a CC-BY license.

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