Photography

1. Rogelio Moreno Gill
Panama, Panama
Fern sorus at varying levels of maturity
Fluorescence, Image Stacking

2. Now celebrating its 41st year, Nikon Small World is widely regarded as the
leading forum to recognize proficiency and photographic excellence of
photography taken under the microscope. To select the winners, competition
judges analyzed entries from all over the world covering subjects ranging
from chemical compounds to up-close-and-personal looks at biological
specimens. (Nikon)

3. Dr. Joseph Parker
Columbia University, Department of Genetics and Development New York, New York, USA
Rove beetle head (Tychobythinus sp.)

4. Jose Almodovar
University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Mayaguez Campus,
Biology Department
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, USA
Tentacles of a carnivorous plant (Drosera sp.)

5. Dr. Giorgio Seano & Dr.
Rakesh K. Jain
Harvard Medical School,
Massachusetts General
Hospital
Edwin L. Steele Laboratory
for Tumor Biology
Boston, Massachusetts,
USA
Live imaging of perfused
vasculature in a mouse bra
in with glioblastoma
Optical Frequency Domain
Imaging System

6. Christian Bohley
Martin Luther
University Halle-
Wittenberg Halle,
Germany
Degenerating Blue
Phases (II) of 55%
CB15 in E48 (s
ubstance used in
manufacture of Liquid
Crystal Displays)
Polarized Light

7. Dr. David Maitland
Feltwell, United Kingdom
Leaf cross section of a water lily leaf bud (Nuphalutea)

8. Douglas Moore
University of Wisconsin -
Stevens Point, University
Relations and
Communications
Stevens Point, Wisconsin,
USA
Fairburn agate from Black
Hills of western South
Dakota (63x)
Fiber Optic Illumination
63x

9. Jace Artichoker
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Rochester, New York, USA
Mouse embryo, 10.5 days old

10. Norm Barker
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pathology Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Red fossil coral slab Reflected Light

11. Dr. Helen Rankin
University of California,
Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA
Transgenic
Xenopus laevis (African
clawed toad) tadpole head
expressing green neurons
Confocal
10x

12. Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
Ashburn, Virginia, USA
Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI),
Janelia Farm Research Campus,
Leonardo Lab
Intake of a humped bladderwort (
Utricularia gibba), a freshwater
carnivorous plant

13. Donald Parsons
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Scales on moth wing Image
Stacking
300x

14. Dr. David Maitland
Feltwell, United Kingdom
Black witch-hazel (Trichodactylus crinitus)
leaf producing crystals to defend against
herbivores

15. Howard Lynk
Morehead City, North
Carolina, USA
Micro-engraving on
glass from an antique
microscope slide
created by Washington
Teasdale c. 1880
Darkfield
100x

16. Dr. Alessio Colombo
DZNE Munich, Bavaria,
Germany
Mouse dorsal root
ganglia (neuronal plus
Schwann cells) in
culture
Confocal

17. Dr. Matthew S. Lehnert
Kent State University at Stark
North Canton, Ohio, USA
Proboscis (mouthparts) tip of a vampire moth (Calyptra thalictri).

18. Dr. Aleksandar Matkovic
University of Belgrade, Institute of Physics
Center for Solid State Physics and New Materials
Belgrade, Serbia
Gold and titanium electrodes covered by graphene sheet
Brightfield

19. Dr. David Maitland
Feltwell, United Kingdom
Vascular bundles of papyrus (Cyperus papyrus)

20. Kirti Prakash
Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz
Mainz, Germany
DNA inside cell nucleus
Super-Resolution Microscope

21. Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
Ashburn, Virginia, USA
Hughes Medical Institute
(HHMI), Janelia Farm
Research Campus,
Leonardo Lab Antenna of
a male moth (Anisota sp.)

22. Dr. Heiti Paves
Tallinn University of Technology, Department of Gene Technology
Tallinn, Estonia
Anther of a flowering plant (Arabidopsis thaliana)

23. Michael Crutchley
Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Radula (feeding structure) of an aquatic snail (Limpet)
Darkfield Epi.
40x

24. Dr. Luca Toledano
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale
di Verona
Verona, Italy
Detail of jewel beetle
(Coleoptera
Buprestidae)

25. Cynthia Levinthal
Q Therapeutics, Clinical/Research Department
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

26. Frank Reiser
Nassau Community
College, Department of
Biology Garden City, New
York, USA
Suction cups on the diving
beetle ( Dytiscus sp.)
foreleg
Image Stacking, Photo-
merge
50x

27. Charles B. Krebs
Charles Krebs Photography
Issaquah, Washington, USA
Feeding rotifers (Floscularia ringens)
Darkfield
50x

28. Dr. Yoji Tanaka
Microphoto Studio "Cat's
Glove"
Ebina, Kanagawa, Japan
Twinned crystals of 4,4'-
dibromobiphenyl
Polarized Light, Retardation
Control

29. Dr. Maria Boulina, Dr. Akira Chiba & Hasitha Samarajeewa
University of Miami
Miami, Florida, USA
Individually colored neurons in a live fruit fly (Drosophila) larva
Fluorescence, Confocal

30. Dr. David Linstead
Bromley, Kent, United
Kingdom
Buoyancy organs of a
phantom midge
(Chaoborus) larva
Polarized Light
125x

31. Jacek Myslowski
Wloclawek, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
Alona guttata (water flea)
Fluorescence
200x

32. Arturo Agostino
Reggio Calabria, Italy
Colony of single celled organisms (Carchesium ciliates)
Differential Interference Contrast

33. Raymond
Morrison Sloss
Quekett
Microscope Club
Banbury,
Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
Mouth parts
(pseudo trachea)
of a Blowfly
(Callipho
ra vomitoria)

34. Dr. Tetsuaki Miyake
York University, Department of
Biology
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cultured mouse embryo cells

35. Harry Leung
Harvard Medical School
Program in Cellular and
Molecular Medicine,
Children's Hospital
Boston
Boston, Massachusetts,
USA
Stinger of a honey bee

36. Thomas Deernick
University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California, USA
Triple-labeled rat cerebellum
Multiphoton
100x

37. Susan Tremblay
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA
Liverwort (Lepidolaena taylorii) plant
showing modified leaves (water sacs),
which are often home to aquatic
microorganisms such as rotifers

38. Daniel H. Miller & Ethan
S. Sokol
Whitehead Institute for
Biomedical Research,
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology,
Department of Biology
Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA
Lab-grown human
mammary gland
organoid

39. David Spears
David Spears Imaging
Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom
Root tip section of a dicot plant
Differential Interference Contrast
25.5x

40. Dr. Nathanael Prunet
California Institute of
Technology and
Dartmouth College,
Department of Biology
Pasadena, California,
USA
Young buds of
Arabidopsis (a
flowering plant)

41. Dr. Ariadna Recasens
University of Sydney, Kolling Institute of Medical
Research Sydney, Australia
Micrometamorphosis: from human stem cells to
neurons Fluorescence
20x

42. Donn Dr. Donna Beer Stolz
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Cell Biology
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Mutant human alpha-1 antitrypsin aggregates (red)
exiting the endoplasmic reticulum (green) in an iPS
cell differentiated into a liver cell
Confocal Reconstruction
200x

43. Katherine Pfister
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Xenopus laevis (frog) tadpole- ventral view

44. Anatoly Mikhaltsov
Omsk, Russia
Transverse section of
an ostrich fern
Brightfield 250x

45. Michael Crutchley
Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Adult marine worm (Autolytus)
Macroscopy
30x

46. Jie Zh Jie Zhang
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, USA
Janus particles (micro-
particles) suspended in
water between two
transparent electrode
(40x)
Brightfield
40x

47. Evan Darling
Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York,
USA
Starfish imaged using
confocal microscopy

48. Dr. Konstantin Bergmeister Marion
Gröger, Martin Aman, Anna
Willensdorfer, Krisztina Manzano-
Szalai & Oskar C. Aszmann
Medical University of Vienna,
Christian Doppler Laboratory for
Restoration of Extremity Function,
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery,
Vienna, Austria
Murine biceps muscle stained to
show different muscle fiber
populations
Fluorescence -immunohistochemistry

49. Dr. Robert Markus
University of
Nottingham, School of
Life Sciences Super
Resolution Microscopy
Department
Nottingham, United
Kingdom
Bovine pulmonary
artery endothelial cells

50. END12-OCTUBRE-2015