2010 BioScapes Winners

2^nd Place

Mr. Thomas Deerinck

University of California, San Diego

San Diego, California, USA

Specimen: Rat Hippocampus

Technique: Multiphoton

3^rd Place

Mr. James Nicholson

Coral Culture & Collaborative Research Facility, Fort Johnson Marine Lab

Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Specimen: Solitary coral, Fungia sp

Technique: Reflected illumination/epifluorescence without barrier filter

4^th Place

Mr. Wolfgang Bettighofer

Kiel, Germany

Specimen: Licmophora juergensii on red alga

Technique: Differential interference contrast

5^th Place

Dr. M. Reza Dadpour

Department of Horticultural Sciences, University of Tabriz

Tabriz, Iran

Specimen: Flower primordium of Tribulus sp

Technique: Epi-Illumination, 100 z-stacked images

6^th Place

Dr. Jerzy Gubernator

Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw

Wroclaw, Poland

Specimen: Spirogyra

Technique: Brightfield

7^th Place

Dr. Igor Siwanowicz

Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology

Munich, Germany

Specimen: Eye of a common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum)

Technique: Confocal, series projection

8^th Place

Dr. Jan Michels

Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Institute of Zoology

Kiel, Germany

Specimen: Adhesive pad of the first leg of a beetle (Clytus sp.)

Technique: Autofluorescence

9^th Place

Ms. Yanping Wang

Beijing Planetarium

Beijing, China

Specimen: Seeds of wild flowers

Technique: Brightfield reflected light

10^th Place

Mr. Laurie Knight

Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom

Specimen: Weevil (poss. Curculio nucum or Curculio glandium)

Technique: Episcopic illumination