BioScapes - Internation Digital Imaging Competition
Olympus BioScapes 2009 Winners Gallery
The Olympus BioScapes 2009 winners and honorable mentions are displayed in this gallery. In order to view a larger version of the images (or to play videos), please click on the individual links.
- 1st Prize - Dr. Jan Michels
Specimen: Daphnia atkinsoni (Water Flea)
- 2nd Prize - Dr. Chung-Ju Rachel Wang
Specimen: Synaptonemal complex
- 3rd Prize - Dr. Jeremy Pickett-Heaps
Specimen: Sexual Attraction in Spirogyra
- 4th Prize - Mr. Charles Krebs
Specimen: Haematococcus pluvialis (Unicellular Algae)
- 5th Prize - Dr. David Domozych
Specimen: Penium
- 6th Prize - Dr. Alvaro Migotto
Specimen: Physalia physalis (Portuguese Man o' War)
- 7th Prize - Dr. Albert Pan
Specimen: Zebrafish tail sensory axons
- 8th Prize - Dr. Heiti Paves
Specimen: Arabidopsis thaliana
- 9th Prize - Ms. Haruka Fujimaki
Specimen: Atlantic salmon embryos
- 10th Prize - Mr. Gist Croft and Ms. Mackenzie Weygandt
Specimen: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis motor neurons
Prize Winners
- Mr. Norm Barker
Specimen: Red sponge coral fossil
- Dr. Howard Berg
Specimen: Petunia flower
- Mrs. Stephanie Boyle
Specimen: Brine Shrimp
- Mr. Karl Bruun
Specimen: Bosmina sp.
- Dr. Margaret Clarke
Specimen: Amoeba and yeast cell
- Dr. Ma. Ivy Clemente
Specimen: Fibroadenoma and Prostatic Hyperplasia
- Mr. Stijn Coccoris
Specimen: Actinoptychus heliopelta fossil
- Dr. M. Reza Dadpour
Specimen: Citrus floral primordium
- Dr. Andrea Doni
Specimen: Blood and lymphatic vasculature
- Mr. Fernán Federici
Specimen: Arabidopsis thaliana stomata
- Mr. Fernán Federici
Specimen: Arabidopsis thaliana embryos
- Dr. Rachel Fink
Specimen: Loligo peali (Squid embryo)
- Dr. Uma Ganesan
Specimen: Tufted trichomes in oak leaf
- Mr. Ralph Grimm
Specimen: Mosquito head and parasitengona mite
- Mrs. Marta Guervos
Specimen: Acacia dealbata (Silver Wattle) stamen
- Dr. Mohammad K. Hajihosseini
Specimen: Transgenic mouse
- Dr. Patrick Hickey
Specimen: Neurospora crassa hyphal tips
- Mr. Martin Jurna
Specimen: Sebaceous glands in a rat ear
- Dr. Karl Kasischke and Dr. Harris A. Gelbard
Specimen: Microglia in mouse cortex and blood vessels
- Dr. Daniel Kirilly
Specimen: Neurons under Drosophila pupa epithelium
- Mr. Charles Krebs
Specimen: Moth
- Ms. Ellen-Thérèse Lamm
Specimen: Triceratops parietal bone
- Mr. Olivier Leroux
Specimen: Transverse section Lycopodium squarrosum
- Mr. Mathieu Letellier
Specimen: Connexions in mouse olivo-cerebellum
- Dr. Alexis Lomakin
Specimen: Xenopus melanophore with microtubules
- Dr. Jeffrey Mellott
Specimen: SMI-32 neurons in auditory cortex of cat
- Dr. Jan Michels
Specimen: Daphnia pulex (Water Flea)
- Dr. Alvaro Migotto
Specimen: Eurythoe complanata (Fire worm)
- Dr. Alvaro Migotto
Specimen: Turritopsis nutricula (Jellyfish)
- Mr. David Millard
Specimen: Urania riphaeus (Sunset Moth wing scales)
- Mr. Larry Millet
Specimen: Mycelium hyphae in a microfluidic device
- Mr. Marek Mis
Specimen: Cymbella sp.
- Dr. Elmarie Myburgh
Specimen: Live Leishmania mexicana promastigote
- Dr. Stephen Nagy
Specimen: Common porpoise bone
- Dr. Stephen Nagy
Specimen: Plumose antenna of Gypsy Moth
- Dr. Maria Nemethova
Specimen: CAR fish fibroblast
- Mr. James Nicholson
Specimen: Fungia feeding
- Mr. James Nicholson
Specimen: Fungia fragment
- Dr. Satoshi Nishimura
Specimen: In vivo imaging of adipose tissue
- Dr. Dominik Paquet
Specimen: Tau-transgenic "Alzheimer"-Zebrafish
- Mr. Fabrice Parais
Specimen: Polycentropus flavomaculatus
- Dr. Heiti Paves
Specimen: Arabidopsis thaliana stigma
- Dr. Heiti Paves
Specimen: Arabidopsis thaliana anther
- Mr. John Peloquin
Specimen: Bovine artery cross section
- Mr. Mike Peres
Specimen: Fetal cat coronal section
- Dr. Jeremy Pickett-Heaps
Specimen: Desmid dividing
- Mr. Sebastian Pintscher
Specimen: Cookeina speciosa
- Dr. Fabienne Poulain
Specimen: Zebrafish embryo with retinal axons
- Dr. Marco Antonio Ramírez
Specimen: Shark parasite
- Dr. Gareth Rogers
Specimen: Mouse duodenum with K-Cell
- Dr. Ross Rounsevell and Dr. Wilbur Lam
Specimen: Sickle cells
- Mr. Ruben M. Sandoval
Specimen: Intravital kidney image of a glomerulus
- Mr. Neville Sanjana
Specimen: Mouse cortical neurons
- Ms. Sylvia Schirmer
Specimen: Cryo section of rat testis
- Dr. Mayandi Sivaguru
Specimen: Arabidopsis thaliana anther with a petal
- Mr. Josef Spacek
Specimen: Vessel architectonics of leaf of lime
- Mr. Viktor Sýkora
Specimen: Dryas octopelata seeds
- Mr. Tim Viney
Specimen: Genetically-identified retinal ganglion cells
- Ms. Mayumi Wakazaki and Dr. Kiminori Toyooka
Specimen: Epidermal cells of Lotus japonicus dry seed
- Mr. Spike Walker
Specimen: Centaurea cyanus (cornflower) seeds
- Mr. Spike Walker
Specimen: Mandibles of a spider
- Ms. Yanping Wang
Specimen: Viola prionantha
- Dr. David Ward
Specimen: Skeletal muscle
- Miss. Maria Paula Zappia
Specimen: Drosophila ovarioles
- Mr. Bernd Zobiak
Specimen: Apicoplast