Olympus BioScapes 2013 Winners Gallery

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2013 Winning Entries

The Olympus BioScapes 2013 winners, honorable mentions, and technical merit awards are displayed in this gallery. In order to view the images, please click on the individual links.

1st Prize - Dr. Igor Siwanowicz

Specimen: Carnivorous U. gibba plant
HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Specimen: Open trap of aquatic carnivorous plant, humped bladderwort Utricularia gibba, with single-cell organisms inside.
Technique: Confocal imaging, 100x

2nd Prize - Miss Dorit Hockman Specimen: Molossus rufus embry

Miss Dorit Hockman
University of Oxford
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Specimen: Embryo of black mastiff bat Molossus rufus.
Technique: Stereo microscopy

3rd Prize - Dr. Igor Siwanowicz Specimen: Desmids

Dr. Igor Siwanowicz

HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Specimen: Single-cell fresh water algae (desmids). Composite image including, concentric from the outside: Micrasterias rotata, Micrasterias sp., M. furcata, M. americana, 2x M. truncata, Euastrum sp. and Cosmarium sp.
Technique: Confocal imaging, 400x

4th Prize - Mr. Spike Walker Specimen: Lily flower bud

Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Specimen: Lily flower bud, transverse section.
Technique: Darkfield illumination, stitched images

5th Prize - Dr. Dylan Burnette Specimen: Mouse fibroblasts

Dr. Dylan Burnette

National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Specimen: Mouse embryonic fibroblasts showing actin filaments (red), mitochondria (green) and DNA (blue).
Technique: Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) fluorescence, acquired with a 60x objective

6th Prize - Mr. Kurt Wirz Specimen: Gonocerus acuteangulatus

Mr. Kurt Wirz
Basel, Switzerland
Specimen: "Brother bugs." Gonocerus acuteangulatus, two hours old. Size 3mm.

7th Prize - Mr. Charles Krebs Specimen: Phantom Midge larva

Mr. Charles Krebs

Issaquah, Washington, United States
Specimen: Phantom midge larva (Chaoborus) "Glassworm." Birefringent musculature that is usually clear and colorless is made visible here by specialized illumination.
Technique: Polarized light, 100X

8th Prize - Dr. Yaron Fuchs Specimen: Mouse tail with stem cells

Dr. Yaron Fuchs

Howard Hughes Medical Institute/The Rockefeller University
New York, NY USA
Specimen: Mouse tail whole mounts showing hair follicle stem cells and proliferating cells.
Technique: Confocal imaging

9th Prize - Mr. Fabrice Parais Specimen: Sericostoma sp.

Mr. Fabrice Parais

DREAL (Regional Directorate of Environment, Planning and Housing) of Basse-Normandie
Caen, France
Specimen: Head and legs of a caddisfly larva: Sericostoma sp., a benthic macroinvertebrate that can be used for freshwater biomonitoring; because it is relatively sensitive to organic pollution and dies if water is dirty, it is a good indicator of water quality.
Technique: Stereo microscopy, 15x

10th Prize - Mr. Ralph Grimm Specimen: Video: Paramecium

Mr. Ralph Grimm

Jimboomba Queensland, Australia
Specimen: Paramecium, showing contractile vacuole and ciliary motion.
Technique: Differential interference contrast, 350x-1000x

Honorable Mentions

Dr. Claudia BarrosSpecimen: Mouse cerebral cortex
Dr. Michael J. BoyleSpecimen: Phascolion cryptum
Terry BurnsSpecimen: Mouse brain
Dr. Margaret ClarkeSpecimen: Video: Dictyostelium eating bacteria
Mr. Mike CrutchleySpecimen: Eyelash fungi
Dr. Nicolás CuencaSpecimen: Monkey retina
Dr. Stefano Di TaliaSpecimen: Video: Drosophila cell cycle
Dr. John DolanSpecimen: Rhizoplegma boreale
Mr. Geir DrangeSpecimen: Ant pupae
Miss Julie DucharmeSpecimen: Mouse kidney
Mr. Alexandru DumitracheSpecimen: Clostridium thermocellum biofilm
Dr. Ali ErtürkSpecimen: Video: Mouse brainstem
Dr. Alexia FerrandSpecimen: Rotifer
Dr. Marwan Ghabril and Dr. Cliff BabbeySpecimen: Video: Mouse liver
Mr. Michael GibsonSpecimen: Blowfly proboscis
Mr. Michael GibsonSpecimen: Silkworm tracheae
Mr. Gerd A. GüntherSpecimen: Video: Nassula sp.
Dr. Jens HallfeldtSpecimen: Video: Euastrum oblongum
Mr. Tyler HickmanSpecimen: Organ of Corti
Mr. Pekka HonkakoskiSpecimen: Black beetle
Dr. Christopher JacksonSpecimen: Video: Cardiomyocytes
Dr. Muthugapatti KandasamySpecimen: Microplitis demolitor eggs
Mrs. Masoumeh "Sahar" KhodaverdiSpecimen: Anemone flower
Mr. Moritz KlinghardtSpecimen: Video: Rotifer hatching
Mr. Laurie KnightSpecimen: Long-legged fly
Mr. Laurie KnightSpecimen: European hornet
Dr. Andrei Kobitski et al.Specimen: Video: Zebrafish embryo
Dr. Alan Kohn and Dr. Joshua KuboSpecimen: Conus ermineus tooth
Mr. Charles KrebsSpecimen: Camellia bud
Mr. Charles KrebsSpecimen: Chrysochroa buqueti
Dr. Matthew S. Lehnert and Ms. Catherine P. MulvaneSpecimen: Butterfly proboscis
Dr. Nils LindströmSpecimen: Video: Mouse kidney
Dr. Xiaochen Lu and Mr. C. Chase BoltSpecimen: Embryonic mouse
Mr. Gabriel LunaSpecimen: Mouse retina
Dr. David MaitlandSpecimen: Palm with xylem "eyes"
Dr. Jan MichelsSpecimen: Ceratium sp.
Dr. Jan MichelsSpecimen: Centropages hamatus
Mr. David MillardSpecimen: Atlides halesus scales
Mr. Marek MiśSpecimen: Desmids and Sphagnum leaf
Mr. Douglas MooreSpecimen: Dinosaur bone
Mr. Rogelio Moreno GillSpecimen: Micrasterias furcata
Mr. Sébastien MouchetSpecimen: Entimus imperialis
Mr. Jacek MyslowskiSpecimen: Testudinella
Mr. Waldo NellSpecimen: Barnacle cirri with diatoms
Mr. James NicholsonSpecimen: Acropora formosa
Dr. Satoshi NishimuraSpecimen: Video: In vivo imaging
Dr. Albert PanSpecimen: Brainbow zebrafish
Mr. Jens PetersenSpecimen: Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Mr. Jens PetersenSpecimen: Verbascum nigrum
Ms. Amanda Phillips-YzaguirreSpecimen: Mouse chorionic vasculature
Dr. Csaba PintérSpecimen: Curculio glandium
Dr. Csaba PintérSpecimen: Capsicum
Dr. Poulomi RaySpecimen: Chick embryonic kidney
Dr. Gregory RouseSpecimen: Amphipod crustacean
Ahmad SalehiSpecimen: Mouse hippocampus
Dr. Ankur SinghSpecimen: Lung fibroblast
Dr. Igor SiwanowiczSpecimen: Rotifers surrounding alga
Mr. Viktor SýkoraSpecimen: Stag beetle
Dr. Erdem TabdanovSpecimen: CD4+ T-cells on biochip
Mr. Riccardo TaiariolSpecimen: Nassula
Miss Vitória Tobias SantosSpecimen: Glass shrimp eye
Mrs. Magdalena TurzańskaSpecimen: Lepidozia reptans
Mrs. Magdalena TurzańskaSpecimen: Mnium hornum
Mr. Wim van EgmondSpecimen: Video: Rotifer among Stentors
Mr. Philippe VerreesSpecimen: Daphnia pulex
Mr. Daniel von WangenheimSpecimen: Video: Arabidopsis root formation
Dr. Louisa WindusSpecimen: Tumor masses - 3D matrix
Mr. Kurt WirzSpecimen: Panorpa communis
Dr. Andrew Woolley and Dr. Aaron GilmourSpecimen: Brain cell culture

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2013 Honorable Mentions

C. Barros	M. Boyle	T. Burns	M. Clarke	M. Crutchley	N. Cuenca
S. Di Talia	J. Dolan	G. Drange	J. Ducharme	A. Dumitrache	A. Ertürk
A. Ferrand	M. Ghabril and C. Babbey	M. Gibson	M. Gibson	G. Günther	J. Hallfeldt
T. Hickman	P. Honkakoski	C. Jackson	M. Kandasamy	M. Khodaverdi	M. Klinghardt
L. Knight	L. Knight	A. Kobitski et al.	A. Kohn and J. Kubo	C. Krebs	C. Krebs
M. Lehnert and C. Mulvane	N. Lindström	X. Lu and C. Bolt	G. Luna	D. Maitland	J. Michels
J. Michels	D. Millard	M. Miś	D. Moore	R. Moreno Gill	S. Mouchet
J. Myslowski	W. Nell	J. Nicholson	S. Nishimura	A. Pan	J. Petersen
J. Petersen	A. Phillips-Yzaguirre	C. Pintér	C. Pintér	P. Ray	G. Rouse
A. Salehi	A. Singh	I. Siwanowicz	V. Sýkora	E. Tabdanov	R. Taiariol
V. Tobias Santos	M. Turzańska	M. Turzańska	W. van Egmond	P. Verrees	D. von Wangenheim
L. Windus	K. Wirz	A. Woolley and A. Gilmour

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