2004 BioScapes Winners
Winner
Mr. Donald Pottle
The Schepens Eye Research Institute
Boston, MA, USA
Specimen: Healthy arteriole in eye, with tough, flexible elastin wall (pink), red blood cells (red) and supporting collagen fibers (web-like "netting," and yellow & green areas)
Technique: Confocal, 40x Objective
Runners Up
2nd Place
Dr. Phillip Wharton
Department of Plant Pathology, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, USA
Specimen: Fungus rupturing surface of blueberry, 32 composite images, each made by combining 90 optical sections
Technique: Confocal
3rd Place
Dr. Daniel Kirilly
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Kansas City, MO, USA
Specimen: Mutant follicle cells (green) expanding on the surface of fruit fly egg chamber
Technique: Confocal, 100x Objective
4th Place
Dr. Jim Haseloff
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Specimen: Horsetail fern sporangia
Technique: Confocal
5th Place
Mr. Thomas Deerinck
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Specimen: Rat cerebellum, imaged with quantum dots (nanocrystals)
Technique: 2-photon fluorescence
6th Place
Mr. Ron Oldfield
Biology Department, Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia
Specimen: Hairs on Tilia americana (basswood)
Technique: Polarized light, 25x Objective
7th Place
Mr. Michael Dingley
Hazelbrook, Australia
Specimen: Micrasterias, each one-celled Desmid consists of two half cells that are mirror images of one another
Technique: Brightfield, 50x Objective
8th Place
Mr. Wim van Egmond
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Specimen: Living Volvox colony (green algae)
Technique: Differential interference contrast, 100x Objective
9th Place
Mr. Harold Taylor
Kensworth, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK
Specimen: Poppy flowerhead showing immature seeds
Technique: Brightfield (in reverse), 40x Objective
10th Place
Mr. Werner Zuschratter
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Magdeburg, Germany
Specimen: Hippocampal neurons
Technique: Confocal, 40x Objective