The competition is under the patronage of prof. Alexander W. Bruce (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). All contestants will be judged by a panel of faculty members from the department with input from likes that contestants receive on our departmental Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/KMBPrFJU

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Scientific Image Competition 2025

The competition for this year is opened!

Submission guide

There are two categories and the first prize is 3000 CZK in each category:

I. "Scientific Merit" category - captures a major breakthrough in research from the previous year.

II. "Aesthetic Merit" - the photo (image) should be pleasing to the eye and open to all kinds of artistic treatment- people can unleash their inner surrealist.

The competition starts from 25.11.2025 and deadline for entries is 23rd December 2025 (inclusive).

Send the entries to Alexander W. Bruce This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Each entry should be accompanied by a one sentence description, the category in which it is entered, the name of the person submitting the entry and the name of the lab the image originates from.

Additionally, we ask entrants to provide their images in two formats:

Full sized and full resolution image they wish to be judged (in any image file format they deem appropriate)
Small image (max. 340 x340 pixels) in a jpg or png format, that I can easily and directly upload onto the department website (see URLs above) and Facebook pages