Have you visited the Imaging Centre at EMBL Heidelberg and were wondering what you would need to do to see your image displayed on the large LED wall that is part of the exhibition?

The EMBL Imaging Centre and EMBL’s exhibition “The World of Molecular Biology” are looking for new images to be shown on the large LED wall (40 m²) – the ‘Window of Wonder’ – located in the atrium of the EMBL IC building. We are welcoming submissions from everyone who applied imaging technology available at EMBL – from EMBL researchers as well as users of all EMBL’s imaging facilities – across EMBL sites and services!

The submission portal will open in October and stay available until 31 December. A jury of EMBL scientists and imaging experts, as well as members of the exhibition and communication teams will select the most striking and beautiful images, which will be professionally processed for animated display on the LED wall. An award ceremony with a display premiere is planned for spring 2026, where the selected images can be admired for the first time.

Credits: Holly Joynes/EMBL

🔬What images can I submit?

• Invited are submissions across the imaging spectrum – from electron microscopy all the way to whole organism light microscopy – atomic to organismal scale – structural biology to developmental biology – life sciences and material sciences – raw images to processed images. No hard restrictions.
• Eligible are EMBL researchers as well as external users of all EMBL’s imaging facilities – across EMBL sites and services

⚙️Requirements?

• Ideally the native resolution should be as close to 4000 px wide x 2000 px as possible. The company responsible for processing can do AI upscaling, but it is very important that the image is not upscaled beforehand.
• Standard image formats such as TIFF, JPG, PNG are all fine for submission. 
• You have to own your image and have not published it elsewhere. The final processed image will be owned by EMBL as part of the “World of Molecular Biology” exhibition.

💡What else do you need to know?

You will be able to submit up to three images.

With the submission we will ask you to submit a few words accompanying the image – “the story behind the image” – as well as technical information on the sample and the image , e.g. what system/microscope and what objective was used, was the image processed as well as what labelling was used.