Olympus BioScapes 2011 Winners Gallery
The Olympus BioScapes 2011 winners, honorable mentions, and technical merit awards 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 - Mr. Charles Krebs
Specimen: Rotifer Floscularia ringens feeding. Its rapidly beating cilia (hair-like structures) bring water containing food to the rotifer
- 2nd Prize - Mr. Daniel von Wangenheim
Specimen: Arabidopsis thaliana lateral root growing out of the primary root. A stack of images was recorded every 15 minutes over 75 hours
- 3rd Prize - Dr. Liang Gao
Specimen: COS-7 cell membrane. Cells of this type are often transfected for biochemistry and cell biology research
- 4th Prize - Mr. Edwin Lee
Specimen: Paramecia contractile vacuoles, which regulate water pressure within the protozoan's body
- 5th Prize - Mr. James H. Nicholson
Specimen: Live coral Goniastrea sp., known as green brain coral. One full polyp in the center is shown with four surrounding polyps.
- 6th Prize - Mr. Haris Antonopoulos
Specimen: Stink bug eggs
- 7th Prize - Mr. Gunnar Newquist
Specimen: Drosophila ovaries and uterus
- 8th Prize - Dr. James LaFountain and Rudolf Oldenbourg
Specimen: Crane fly Nephrotoma suturalis sperm cell at metaphase of meiosis. Images were captured every 15 seconds for 35 minutes of cell division
- 9th Prize - Mr. Wolfgang Bettighofer
Living diatom Mediopyxis helysia, showing the cell nuclei
and golden chloroplasts. - 10th Prize - Mr. Gerd Guenther
Spherical colonies of Nostoc commune, a bluegreen alga
Prize Winners
- Dr. Frank Abernathy
Specimen: Serum arrested Mouse L-1210 cells engaged in spontaneous apoptosis (programmed cell death) after nutrient depletion and acid hydrolysis
- Dr. Robert Berdan
Specimen: Trout alevin (alevin is the second of four stages in the life cycle of a trout, when eggs hatch and the tiny fish begin to emerge)
- Ms. Lorraine Bloom
Specimen: Dinosaur bone in thin section
- Dr. Hsiu-Ming Chang
Specimen: Single neuron from Drosophila brain in 3D
- Dr. Douglas Clark
Specimen: Eupholus weevil, dried thorax scales, stack of 80 images
- Dr. Elena Lucia Constantinescu
Specimen: Rat brain tissue
- Mr. Mike Crutchley
Specimen: Hydroid collected from kelp sample
- Dr. Julia Dibner
Specimen: Developing bone (ossification) in a bird
- Dr. Sandra Dieni
Specimen: Adult mouse hippocampus, a region of the brain involved in learning and memory. Reactive astroglia (pale yellow) have proliferated and enlarged in response to neuronal activity over time
- Dr. Sandra Dieni
Specimen: Immature mouse hippocampus, a region of the brain involved in learning and memory
- Mr. John Dolan
Specimen: Marine plankton Petalotricha ampulla with cilia extended
- Mr. David Domozych
Specimen: Green alga Penium margaritaceum. The cell wall is green and the chloroplast is represented by autofluorescence
- Mr. Geir Drange
Specimen: Two damsel bugs (Nabis sp.) seemingly feeding on an aphid. Background is dried leaf of Norway maple (Acer platanoides)
- Dr. Fernan Federici and Dr. Anna Gordon
Specimen: Stigma infected with Claviceps fungus
- Dr. Fernan Federici
Specimen: Corn tissue
- Dr. Rita Fior
Specimen: Eyes and optic tectum of five-day-old zebrafish larva that has a mutation causing retinal axons to project into the olfactory lobe
- Mr. Raphael Gaudin
Specimen: HIV-1–infected human macrophage sensing its environment
- Marwan Ghabril and Clifford M. Babbey
Specimen: Mouse liver showing the movement of macrophages (green cells) through the sinusoids
- Mr. Michael Gibson
Specimen: Protozoan Elphidium crispum
- Mr. Ralph Grimm
Specimen: Cytoplasmic streaming in the cells of living elodea (aquatic plant)
- Dr. Jerzy Gubernator
Specimen: Forewing (elytron) of the green tiger beetle
- Mr. Gerd Guenther
Specimen: Stem section of Fragesia sp., garden bamboo, showing a vascular bundle
- Mr. Gerd Guenther
Specimen: Sorus of Asplenium trichomanes (maidenhair spleenwort), a small fern. A sorus is a cluster of sporangia, which produce and contain spores
- Mr. Gerd Guenther
Specimen: Bacteria
- Mr. Christopher B. Jackson
Specimen: Radiolarian skeleton. Radiolarians are single-cell protozoa with intricate mineral skeletons
- Dr. Oguz Kanca
Specimen: Fixed Drosophila third instar wing
imaginal disc - Mr. Peter Kinchington
Specimen: European wasp head
- Mr. Charles Krebs
Specimen: Mosquito wing. The iridescent colors, a natural phenomenon resulting from the wing structure itself, are similar to the colors seen in oil films or soap bubbles.
- Dr. Alexis J. Lomakin
Specimen: Xenopus melanophore, showing microtubules, microtubule plus-ends and nucleus
- Dr. Steve Lowry
Specimen: Water lily Nymphae alba showing idioblast on transverse section of stem
- Dr. Steve Lowry
Specimen: Diatoms arranged in a familiar shape
- Mr. Gabriel Luna
Specimen: Mouse retina. Retinal astrocytes (red) and blood vessels (green) are visible.
- Dr. Daniela Malide
Specimen: NIH-3T3 connective tissue cells co-transduced with 5 fluorescent proteins
- Ms. Kathryn Markey
Specimen: Juvenile live bay scallop Argopecten irradians
- Mr. Jan Martinek
Specimen: Cross-section of bulrush (Juncus sp.) leaf, autofluorescing red (chlorophyll on external side of leaf) and blue (vascular bundles)
- Dr. Dalibor Matısek
Specimen: Young sporangia of slime mold Arcyria stipata
- Dr. Dalibor Matısek
Specimen: Sporangium of the slime molds Craterium minutum
- Dr. Dalibor Matısek
Specimen: Sporangium of the slime mold Physarum leucophaeum
- Miss Madelyn May
Specimen: Rat cerebral cortex with astrocytes’ (yellow) endfeet wrapping around blood vessels (red). Cell nuclei are cyan.
- Dr. Jan Michels
Specimen: Pretarsus of the third leg of a female drone fly (Eristalis tenax), ventral view.
- Dr. Denise Montell
Specimen: Drosophila ovary
- Mr. James H. Nicholson
Specimen: Underwater image of live coral Montastraea annularis
- Mr. James H. Nicholson
Specimen: Underwater image of live coral Montastraea annularis. Note polyp tissue (green) around the mouth and base of the tentacles and zooxanthellae (red fluorescence from chlorophyll) in the tissue between polyps. Tentacles also are visible.
- Dr. James Orth and Dr. Rainer Kohler
Specimen: Human xenograft tumor HT-1080 cells.
"Adapted and reprinted by permission from the American Association for Cancer Research: Orth and Kohler, Cancer Res 2011;71:4608-4616." - Mr. Nathan Pallace
Specimen: Fluorescent image of Tilia tree
- Ms. Lauren Piedmont
Specimen: Pine Stem
- Mr. Donald Pottle
Specimen: Mast cell - human eye with conjunctivitis. Image composed of 42 stacked sections.
- Dr. Janet Rollins
Specimen: Drosophila sperm
- Dr. John Runions
Specimen: Arabidopsis leaf primordia. The first two true leaves emerging from the shoot apex, covered in sharp hairs (trichomes) to protect them from insects.
- Dr. Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa
Specimen: Halammohydra schulzei, a hydra-type fresh-water cnidarian less than 1 millimeter long.
- Dr. Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa
Specimen: Hymenolepis microstoma, a tapeworm parasite, showing anterior end. Phalloidin staining shows the suckers, pharynx and part of the body-wall musculature
- Dr. Jan Schmoranzer
Specimen: Neuronal culture
- Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
Specimen: Damselfly eye. The image reveals the regular, crystal-like hexagonal lattice of the eye’s elements
- Mr. Daniel Stoupin
Specimen: Plant seed from freshwater pond near Moscow, Russia.
- Mr. Viktor Sıkora
Specimen: Detail of a pod of flowering legume Scorpius muricatus
- Mr. Tim Tiebout
Specimen: Cross section of a cat tooth showing membrane surrounding the outside of tooth
- Mrs. Magdalena Turzanska
Specimen: Epidermis of Sedum sp., a genus of flowering plants with succulent leaves
- Mr. Wim van Egmond
Specimen: Vorticella (bell animalcules), ciliates attached to filamentous alga
- Mr. Wim van Egmond
Specimen: Rotifers (stereoscopic 3D effect - view with red and blue anagyph glasses)
- Ms. Yanping Wang
Specimen: Portulaca seed
- Dr. Richard Wingate
Specimen: “Lost” axons - chick interneurons labeled with green fluorescent protein are transplanted from older into younger embryos.
- Mr. Fengzhu Xiong
Specimen: Zebrafish embryo development from a 2-cell egg to fish larva
- Mr. Chao Zhang
Specimen: Curculionidae “snout beetle”
- Ms. Christina Zimmerman
Specimen: Lobularia maritima (sweet alyssum)
Honorable Mentions
- Dr. Stephen Smith
Specimen: Volume visualization “fly-through” of mouse somatosensory cortex
