1st Place: Daddy longlegs
1st Place 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition: Eyes of daddy longlegs. A frontal section of Phalangium opilio eyes. The lenses, retinas and optic nerves are visible. The image is a depth color-coded projection of a confocal image stack.« Read less
(Igor Siwanowicz, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Munich, Germany)
2nd Place: Rat hippocampus
2nd Place 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition: Rat hippocampus. Widefield multiphoton fluorescence image stained to reveal the distribution of glia, neurofilaments and cell nuclei.« Read less
(Thomas Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research)
3rd Place: Solitary coral
3rd Place 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition: Solitary coral. The tentacle tips, called acrospheres, are visibly enhanced using a technique… Read more »
(James Nicholson, Coral Culture & Collaborative Research Facility)
4th Place: Living Licmophora juegensii
4th Place 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition: Living Licmophora juegensii on red alga, together with the diatom Cocconeis and filamentous… Read more »
(Wolfgang Bettighofer, Kiel, Germany)
5th Place: Weedy flower
5th Place 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition: Dadpour Primordium of the weedy flower at its final stages of development. More than 100 z-stacks… Read more »
(M. Reza Dadpour, University of Tabriz, Iran)
6th Place: Gubernator Spirogyra
6th Place 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition: Gubernator Spirogyra. Brightfield and polarized light.
(Jerzy Gubernator, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw)
7th Place: Blue damselfly eye
7th Place 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition: Siwanowicz eye of a commmon blue damselfly. This projection of a series of confocal microscope… Read more »
(Igor Siwanowicz, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology)
8th Place: Beetle leg
8th Place 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition: Beetle leg. Lateral view of the adhesive pad of the first leg of a beetle captured using… Read more »
(Jan Michels, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany)
9th Place: Wildflower seeds
9th Place 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition: Wildflower seeds. Image captured using brightfield reflected light.
(Yanping Wang, Beijing, China)
10th Place: Weevil head
10th Place 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition: Weevil. Image was captured using episcopic illumination.
(Laurie Knight, Tonbridge, Kent, UK)
