The Best Photos From Photomicrography Competition (35 pics)

1

"Ant (Camponotus)."

Tauragė, Lithuania

Image Of Distinction - Xinpei Zhang

2

"Alaskan sand."

Yu Cheng, Ya'an, China

5th Place - Alison Pollack

3

"Slime mold (Lamproderma)."

San Anselmo, California, USA

Image Of Distinction - Yuan Ji

4

"Butterfly scales."

World Expo Museum

Shanghai, China

Image Of Distinction - Anne-Françoise Tasnier

5

"Wood cells."

Royal Museum for Central Africa

Department of Wood Biology

Tervuren, Belgium

Honorable Mention - Sebastian Sparenga

6

"Recrystallized Vitamin C."

McCrone Research Institute

Chicago, Illinois, USA

10th Place - Murat Öztürk

7

"A fly under the chin of a tiger beetle."

Ankara, Turkey

Image Of Distinction - Adolfo Ruiz De Segovia

8

"Drops of olive oil in water."

Particular

Madrid, Spain

6th Place - Ole Bielfeldt

9

"Unburned particles of carbon released when the hydrocarbon chain of candle wax breaks down."

Macrofying

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Image Of Distinction - Dr. Stephen S. Nagy

10

"Diatoms arranged in an exhibition rosette by Klaus D. Kemp."

Montana Diatoms

Helena, Montana, USA

8th Place - Dr. Nathanaël Prunet

11

"Growing tip of a red algae."

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USADepartment of Biology

Honorable Mention - Ye Fei Zhang

12

"Butterfly egg."

Jiang Yin, Jiangsu, China

1st Place - Grigorii Timin, Dr. Michel Milinkovitch

13

"Embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko (Phelsuma grandis)."

University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Department of Genetics and Evolution

11th Place - Ye Fei Zhang

14

"Moth eggs."

Jiang Yin, Jiangsu, China

Honorable Mention - Dr. Laurent Formery

15

"Two-month old juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata)."

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Image Of Distinction - Dr. Marko Pende

16

"Transgenic axolotl (CNP:GFP;β3Tubulin:mCherry) showing components of the nervous system. CNP+ Schwann cells (cyan) and axons (magenta)."

MDI Biological Laboratory

Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

Image Of Distinction - Dr. Andrew Posselt

17

"Bold jumping spider (Phidippus audax)."

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Department of Surgery

Mill Valley, California, USA

Image Of Distinction - Karl Deckart

18

"Dental drill bit studded with diamond chips."

Eckental, Bavaria, Germany

Image Of Distinction - Ahmad Fauzan

19

"Black and white human hair."

Macro Depok (MD)

Department of Engineering

Jakarta, Indonesia

Image Of Distinction - Yoshihiro Tamaru

20

"Tail of a planktonic crustacean (Oithona brevicornis)."

Hino, Tokyo, Japan

Image Of Distinction - Gabriel Fernández Fernández Jorge Alberto

21

"Four o'clock flower (Mirabilis jalapa)."

San Luis, Argentina

Image Of Distinction - Michael Landgrebe

22

"Moss spore capsule (sporangium)."

Berlin, Germany

Image Of Distinction - Teresa Zgoda

23

"Eyeshadow cosmetic."

Arvada, Colorado, USA

Image Of Distinction - Dr. John Hart

24

"Amino acid crystals (L-glutamine and beta-alanine)."

University of Colorado Boulder

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Boulder, Colorado, USA

Image Of Distinction - Dr. Keat Ying Chan

25

"Epithelial cells of a palmskin zebrafish larva."

Academia Sinica

Chen-Hui Chen's Lab

Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology

Taipei, Taiwan

16th Place - Dr. Olivier Leroux

26

"Longitudinal section through a white asparagus shoot tip."

Ghent University, Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Department of Biology & Department of Plants and Crops

13th Place - Randy Fullbright

27

"Agatized dinosaur bone."

Fullbright Studio

Vernal, Utah, USA

Honorable Mention - Alison Pollack

28

"Slime mold (Didymium clavus)."

San Anselmo, California, USA

Image Of Distinction - Yousef Al Habshi

29

"Red speckled jewel beetle (Chrysochroa buqueti rugicollis)."

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Image Of Distinction - Anatoly Mikhaltsov

30

"Cross section of a leaf of dune grass (Ammophila arenaria)."

Children’s Ecological and Biological Center

Department of Botany

Omsk, Russia

Honorable Mention - Karl Gaff

31

"Midge larva collected from a freshwater pond."

Dublin, Ireland

Image Of Distinction - Dr. Honor Glenn

32

"Human lung cell infected with coronavirus."

Arizona State University

Biodesign Institute

Biodesign Imaging Facility, Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines, and Virotherapy

Tempe, Arizona, USA

4th Place - Dr. Andrew Posselt

33

"Long-bodied cellar/daddy long-legs spider (Pholcus phalangioides)."

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Mill Valley, California, USADepartment of Surgery

Honorable Mention - Dr. Igor Siwanowicz

34

"Radula (rasping tongue) of a marine snail (Turbinidae family)."

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Ashburn, Virginia, USAJanelia Research Campus

14th Place - Nadia Efimova