ASPB EDUCATION FORUM
You Gotta See ’Em to Believe ’Em: Plant Biology Videos from ChloroFilms
Cosponsored by the ASPB Education Foundation
On May 15, ChloroFilms announced the winners of its competition for new plant biology videos on YouTube. Cash prizes totaling over $8,000 were awarded in this first competition, which promotes the creation of fresh, attention-getting, and informative videos about plant life. The grand prize winner (with a $1,000 cash prize) is Ela Lamblin of Vashon, Wash., for his entry titled Fertile Eyes. Lamblin’s video, a collaboration with Anna Edlund, combines music, dance, sensual imagery, and puns to tell the story of pollination and fertilization in plants in an unforgettable way. More from this creative team can be viewed on their website.
First prizes ($500 cash awards) go to Daniel von Wangenheim, of Cologne, Germany, for his entry Fantastic Vesicle Traffic; Kris Holmes, of Rochester, N.Y., for her entry La Bloomba; Burkhard Schulz, of Purdue University, for his production PSI—Are my soybeans wearing different genes?; and Mike Wilder, of Portland, Oreg., for his video series The Carnivorous Syndrome in 3D. In addition, 17 second prizes ($250 each) and 15 honorable mentions ($100 each) were awarded by the ChloroFilms judges. All the prize-winning videos can be viewed on the ChloroFilms website.
ChloroFilms is a nonprofit collaborative project started by Dr. Daniel Cosgrove at Pennsylvania State University with initial funding from the Education Foundation of the American Society of Plant Biologists and additional support from the Botanical Society of America and the Canadian Botanical Association. With the help of volunteers at colleges and universities around the globe, ChloroFilms is working to combine video, Internet, and social networking technologies to promote a greater appreciation for and understanding of plant life and to make the best plant biology videos easy to find from its website at ChloroFilms.org.
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Fertile Eyes,
Author: Ela Lamblin - VIEW
VIDEO
FOUR FIRST PRIZE
WINNERS
Fantastic Vesicle Traffic,
Author: Daniel von Wangenheim, 1st prize technical - VIEW
VIDEO
La Bloomba, Author: Kris
Holmes, 1st prize
artistic - VIEW
VIDEO
PSI - Are my soybeans wearing different
genes?, Author: Burkhard Schulz, 1st prize general/student film - VIEW
VIDEO
The Carnivorous Syndrome in 3D:Part
One, Author: Mike Wilder, 1st prize for series - VIEW
VIDEO
The Carnivorous Syndrome in 3D:Part
Two - VIEW
VIDEO *
The Carnivorous Syndrome in 3D: Part
Three - VIEW
VIDEO *
17 SECOND PRIZE
WINNERS
FromFlowerstoSeeds, Author: Debbie Swarthout - VIEW
VIDEO Technical
Pollination Methods:
Cucurbits, Author: Karl Haro von Mogel - VIEW
VIDEO Technical
Angiosperms: The Secrets of
Flowers, Author: Kate March - VIEW
VIDEO General
Serotiny in Jack Pines (Growing
Better), Author: Chris Martine and Dave
Fleming - VIEW
VIDEO General
The Science of Cool,
Author: Sharon Robinson - VIEW
VIDEO Technical
Measuring Leaf Area with Adobe
Photoshop CS3, Author: Zach Jarou - VIEW
VIDEO Technical
Photosynthesis 101: presented by
Dr. Undergrad, Author: Thomas Miller - VIEW
VIDEO General
Photosynthetic Peep Show,
Author: Renato Buanafina - VIEW
VIDEO General
Mitochondria, Author: Michelle Bell - VIEW
VIDEO General
"Sweet Home Apparatus" - the
ultimate Golgi music video, Author: Anne Osterrieder - VIEW
VIDEO General
Resurrection Plant,
Author: Stephen Saupe - VIEW
VIDEO Technical
The Pines, Author: Nancy Gabriela Santos Hernández - VIEW
VIDEO General
The Pine Tree and the Pressure
Chamber, Author: Ken Shackel - VIEW
VIDEO General
The Fastest Flights in Nature: A
Fungal Opera, Author: Hayley Kilroy - VIEW
VIDEO General
Fields of Study: Pepper
Breeding, Author: Karl Haro von Mogel - VIEW
VIDEO Series
Fields of Study: Switchgrass
Breeding Author: Karl Haro von Mogel - VIEW
VIDEO *
Fields of Study: Corn Breeding Author: Karl Haro von Mogel - VIEW
VIDEO *
15 HONORABLE
MENTIONS
Foil Flower, Author: Craig Dehner - VIEW
VIDEO General
Dying to live: programmed cell death
in lace plant cells, Author: Arunika Gunawardena - VIEW
VIDEO Technical
Alternative Transposition
Generates New Genes by Exon Shuffling, Author: Jianbo
Zhang - VIEW
VIDEO Technical
A Day in the Life of Jenny
Artichoke, Author: Amelia Min-Venditti - VIEW
VIDEO General
Wild Oats, Author: William E. Dyer - VIEW
VIDEO General
Plants and Memory,
Author: John Davis - VIEW
VIDEO Technical
Plant Cell Motility and Laser
Microsurgery of Cytoplasmic Strands, Author: Franz
Hoffmann - VIEW
VIDEO Technical
Etiolation in Action,
Author: Joseph T Carr - VIEW
VIDEO General
Grassland, Author: Amanda C. Lease - VIEW
VIDEO General
Plants Get Sick Too!, Author: Sarah D.
Ellis - VIEW
VIDEO General
What is Urban Forestry?,
Author: Marla McIntosh - VIEW
VIDEO General
The Legend of the Three
Sisters, Author: Justin Brigham - VIEW
VIDEO Technical
The Science of Christmas
Trees, Author: Brady Haran - VIEW
VIDEO General
Taxodium mucronatum
chiapas, Author: Margarita Vazquez - VIEW
VIDEO General
Pigment, Author: Burkhard Schulz - VIEW
VIDEO General |
