Honorable Mention: The Making of the Brain
Fengzhu Xiong, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Subject: Imaging of the formation of the anterior hindbrain from a flat sheet of neural plate cells in a zebrafish embryo
Magnification: 400x
Technique: Confocal Timelapse
The video demonstrates the formation of the anterior hindbrain from a flat sheet of neural plate cells in a zebrafish embryo. In particular, we view the patterns of the nervous system, which are important for understanding human disease. Membrane and nuclear fluorescent proteins were used to label the cells.