Winning Microscope Photographs Are Beautiful, Intriguing, and Creepy



1st Place: Rogelio Moreno, Panama, Panama

Subject: Rotifer showing the mouth interior and heart shaped corona

Technique: Differential Interference Contrast

Magnification: 40X

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1st Place: Rogelio Moreno, Panama, Panama

Subject: Rotifer showing the mouth interior and heart shaped corona

Technique: Differential Interference Contrast

Magnification: 40X


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2nd Place: Alessandro Da Mommio, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Subject: Rhombohedral cleavage in calcite crystal

Technique: Crossed Polars

Magnification: 10X

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2nd Place: Alessandro Da Mommio, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Subject: Rhombohedral cleavage in calcite crystal

Technique: Crossed Polars

Magnification: 10X


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3rd Place: Noah Fram-Schwartz, Greenwich, Connecticut

Subject: Jumping spider eyes

Technique: Reflected Light

Magnification: 20X

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3rd Place: Noah Fram-Schwartz, Greenwich, Connecticut

Subject: Jumping spider eyes

Technique: Reflected Light

Magnification: 20X


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4th Place: Karin Panser, Institute of Molecular Pathology I.M.P. Vienna, Austria

Subject: Caterpillar proleg with circle of gripping hooks in red

Technique: Confocal, Autofluorescence

Magnification: 20X

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4th Place: Karin Panser, Institute of Molecular Pathology I.M.P. Vienna, Austria

Subject: Caterpillar proleg with circle of gripping hooks in red

Technique: Confocal, Autofluorescence

Magnification: 20X


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5th Place: Muthugapatti K. Kandasamy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

Subject: Bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells stained for actin (pink), mitochondria (green) and DNA (yellow)

Technique: Super Resolution Microscopy

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5th Place: Muthugapatti K. Kandasamy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

Subject: Bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells stained for actin (pink), mitochondria (green) and DNA (yellow)

Technique: Super Resolution Microscopy


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6th Place: Douglas Brumley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

Subject: Active fluid flow around P. damicornis (coral polyp)

Technique: Fluorescence, Autofluorescence

Magnification: 4X

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6th Place: Douglas Brumley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

Subject: Active fluid flow around P. damicornis (coral polyp)

Technique: Fluorescence, Autofluorescence

Magnification: 4X


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7th Place: Dennis Hinks, Cleveland, Ohio

Subject: Circuitry in DVD reader

Technique: Cross-polarized microscopy

Magnification: 100X

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7th Place: Dennis Hinks, Cleveland, Ohio

Subject: Circuitry in DVD reader

Technique: Cross-polarized microscopy

Magnification: 100X


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8th Place: Igor Robert Siwanowicz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia

Subject: Appendages of a common brine shrimp

Technique: Confocal

Magnification: 100X

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8th Place: Igor Robert Siwanowicz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia

Subject: Appendages of a common brine shrimp

Technique: Confocal

Magnification: 100X


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9th Place: Meritxell Vendrell, Universitat Autònoma, Barcelona, Spain

Subject: Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) ovary fixed & stained to show lectins (red), nuclei (blue)

Technique: Confocal laser scanning microscopy

Magnification: 63X

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9th Place: Meritxell Vendrell, Universitat Autònoma, Barcelona, Spain

Subject: Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) ovary fixed & stained to show lectins (red), nuclei (blue)

Technique: Confocal laser scanning microscopy

Magnification: 63X


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10th Place: Paul Joseph Rigby, CMCA, The University of Western Australia, Crawley

Subject: Daisy petal with fungal infection and pollen grains, whole mount, unstained

Technique: Confocal autofluorescence

Magnification: 10X

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10th Place: Paul Joseph Rigby, CMCA, The University of Western Australia, Crawley

Subject: Daisy petal with fungal infection and pollen grains, whole mount, unstained

Technique: Confocal autofluorescence

Magnification: 10X


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11th Place: Stefano Barone, Cremona, Italy

Subject: House cricket's tongue (Acheta domesticus)

Technique: Rheinberg illumination (Dark field with interference filter)

Magnification: 25X

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11th Place: Stefano Barone, Cremona, Italy

Subject: House cricket's tongue (Acheta domesticus)

Technique: Rheinberg illumination (Dark field with interference filter)

Magnification: 25X


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12th Place: Douglas Moore, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point

Subject: Montana Dryhead agate, unpolished

Technique: Fiber Optic Illumination

Magnification: 50X

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12th Place: Douglas Moore, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point

Subject: Montana Dryhead agate, unpolished

Technique: Fiber Optic Illumination

Magnification: 50X


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13th Place: Charles Krebs, Charles Krebs Photography, Issaquah, Washington

Subject: Conochilus unicornis (rotifer), actively feeding.

Technique: Differential Interference Contrast

Magnification: 417X

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13th Place: Charles Krebs, Charles Krebs Photography, Issaquah, Washington

Subject: Conochilus unicornis (rotifer), actively feeding.

Technique: Differential Interference Contrast

Magnification: 417X


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14th Place: Ali Erturk, Munich, Germany

Subject: Mouse brain vasculature

Technique: Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

Magnification: 2X

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14th Place: Ali Erturk, Munich, Germany

Subject: Mouse brain vasculature

Technique: Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

Magnification: 2X


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15th Place: Charles Krebs, Charles Krebs Photography, Issaquah, Washington

Subject: Chrysochroa buqueti (jewel beetle) carapace, near eye

Technique: Diffused, Reflected Illumination

Magnification: 45X

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15th Place: Charles Krebs, Charles Krebs Photography, Issaquah, Washington

Subject: Chrysochroa buqueti (jewel beetle) carapace, near eye

Technique: Diffused, Reflected Illumination

Magnification: 45X


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16th Place: Nils Lindstrom, The Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland

Subject: 3 transgenic kidneys cultured together, show colliding branching collecting duct systems

Technique: Confocal

Magnification: 20X

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16th Place: Nils Lindstrom, The Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland

Subject: 3 transgenic kidneys cultured together, show colliding branching collecting duct systems

Technique: Confocal

Magnification: 20X


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17th Place: Rogelio Moreno, Panama, Panama

Subject: Pleurotaenium ovatum (microalgae)

Technique: Polarized Light, Lambda Plate

Magnification: 40X

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17th Place: Rogelio Moreno, Panama, Panama

Subject: Pleurotaenium ovatum (microalgae)

Technique: Polarized Light, Lambda Plate

Magnification: 40X


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18th Place: Jens H. Petersen, MycoKey, Ebeltoft, Denmark

Subject: Anagallis arvensis (scarlet pimpernel)

Technique: Macroscopy

Magnification: 80X

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18th Place: Jens H. Petersen, MycoKey, Ebeltoft, Denmark

Subject: Anagallis arvensis (scarlet pimpernel)

Technique: Macroscopy

Magnification: 80X


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19th Place: Sabrina Kaul, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Subject: Larval stage of the acorn worm Balanoglossus misakiensis

Technique: Confocal

Magnification: 10X

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19th Place: Sabrina Kaul, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Subject: Larval stage of the acorn worm Balanoglossus misakiensis

Technique: Confocal

Magnification: 10X


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20th Place: Dylan T. Burnette, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville

Subject: Crawling bone cancer (osteosarcoma) cell, shows actin filament bundles in the lamella

Technique: Structured Illumination Microscopy

Magnification: 8,000X

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20th Place: Dylan T. Burnette, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville

Subject: Crawling bone cancer (osteosarcoma) cell, shows actin filament bundles in the lamella

Technique: Structured Illumination Microscopy

Magnification: 8,000X


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