Gignac video wins national scientific imaging contest

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Paul M. Gignac, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy and vertebrate paleontology, was selected as a winner in the fifth annual BioArt competition sponsored by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).

He and Nathan J. Kley, associate professor of anatomy at the Stony Brook School of Medicine in New York, produced a video of a tour through the brain of a python using a new soft-tissue visualization tool called diceCT, or diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced computed tomography.

Gignac’s bio-imaging work is funded by the National Science Foundation and Oklahoma State University. The video will be on display at the National Institutes of Health Visitor Center next year and may be viewed here.