2011 BioScapes Winners

Winner

Mr. Charles Krebs

Issaquah, Washington, USA

Specimen: Rotifer Floscularia ringens feeding. Its rapidly beating cilia (hair-like structures) bring water containing food to the rotifer

Technique: Differential interference contrast microscopy

Runners Up

2nd Place

Mr. Daniel von Wangenheim

Frankfurt Institute for Molecular Life Sciences

Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Specimen: Arabidopsis thaliana lateral root growing out of the primary root. A stack of images was recorded every 15 minutes over 75 hours

Technique: Digital scanned light-sheet microscope

3rd Place

Dr. Liang Gao

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus

Ashburn, Virginia, USA

Specimen: COS-7 cell membrane. Cells of this type are often transfected for biochemistry and cell biology research

Technique: Bessel beam super-resolution structured illumination microscopy

4th Place

Mr. Edwin Lee

Carrollton, Texas, USA

Specimen: Paramecia contractile vacuoles, which regulate water pressure within the protozoan's body

Technique: Phase contrast illumination

5th Place

Mr. James Nicholson

NOAA/NOS/NCCOS Fort Johnson Marine Resources Center

Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Specimen: Live coral Goniastrea sp., known as green brain coral. One full polyp in the center is shown with four surrounding polyps. Walled corallites are purple.

Technique: Phase contrast illumination

6th Place

Mr. Haris Antonopoulos

Athens, Greece

Specimen: Stink bug eggs

Technique: Brightfield illumination

7th Place

Mr. Gunnar Newquist

University of Nevada

Reno, Nevada, USA

Specimen: Drosophila ovaries and uterus

Technique: Fluorescence

8th Place

Dr. James LaFountain

State University of New York at Buffalo

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole MA

Specimen: Crane fly Nephrotoma suturalis sperm cell at metaphase of meiosis. Images were captured every 15 seconds for 35 minutes of cell division

Technique: Polarized light microscopy, 60x objective

Co-prizewinners: Rudolf Oldenbourg

9th Place

Mr. Wolfgang Bettighofer

Kiel, Germany

Specimen: Living diatom Mediopyxis helysia, showing the cell nuclei and golden chloroplasts.

Technique: Brightfield

10th Place

Mr. Gerd A. Günther

Duesseldorf, NRW, Germany

Specimen: Spherical colonies of Nostoc commune, a bluegreen alga

Technique: Darkfield illumination