Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition 2012

1st Place Ralph Grimm Jimboomba, Queensland, Australia Specimen: Colonial rotifers showing eyespots and corona, magnification 200x - 500x. Technique: Differential interference contrast Microscope images forge an extraordinary bond between science and art, said Hidenao Tsuchiya, Olympus America's Vice President and General Manager for the Scientific Equipment Group. We founded this competition to focus on the fascinating stories coming out of today's life science research laboratories. The thousands of images that people have shared with the competition over the years reflect some of the most exciting work going on in research today – work that can help shed light on the living universe and ultimately save lives. We look at BioScapes and these beautiful images as sources of education and inspiration to us and the world

Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition 2012
1st Place Ralph Grimm Jimboomba, Queensland, Australia Specimen: Colonial rotifers showing eyespots and corona, magnification 200x - 500x. Technique: Differential interference contrast Microscope images forge an extraordinary bond between science and art, said Hidenao Tsuchiya, Olympus America's Vice President and General Manager for the Scientific Equipment Group. We founded this competition to focus on the fascinating stories coming out of today's life science research laboratories. The thousands of images that people have shared with the competition over the years reflect some of the most exciting work going on in research today – work that can help shed light on the living universe and ultimately save lives. We look at BioScapes and these beautiful images as sources of education and inspiration to us and the world 2nd Place Dr. Arlene Wechezak Anacortes, Washington, USA Specimen: Red algae Scagelia, showing reproductive tetraspores and golden diatoms. Technique: Darkfield 3rd Place Dr. Igor Siwanowicz HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus Ashburn, Virginia, USA Specimen: East-coast US fern, Polypodium virginianum, showing a cluster of spore-filled sporangia and specialized protective hairs called paraphyses. Technique: Confocal microscopy 4th Place Dr. Christian Sardet and Mr. Sharif Mirshak The Plankton Chronicles Project Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, and Montreal, Quebec, Canada Specimen: Claw of crustacean amphipode Phronima sp. Muscles and rows of pigment cells (melanocytes) are visible. Technique: Darkfield 5th Place Mr. Rogelio Moreno Gill Biomarcell Station Zoologique Panama City, Panama Specimen: Unicellular green alga Micrasterias from lake sample. 22 stacked images. Technique: Differential interference contrast 6th Place Mr. James Nicholson NOAA/NOS/NCCOS Center for Coastal Environmental Health & Biomolecular Research Fort Johnson Marine Lab, Charleston, SC, USA Specimen: Live mushroom coral Fungia sp. Close-up of mouth during expansion. Technique: Autofluorescence 7th Place Dr. Christian Klämbt and Dr. Imke Schmidt University of Münster, Münster, Germany Specimen: Beta-tubulin expression of a Drosophila third instar larval brain, with attached eye imaginal discs. Technique: Confocal microscopy 8th Place Mr. Edwin Lee Carrollton, Texas, USA Specimen: Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) stamens anthers and filaments. Technique: Phase contrast 9th Place Mrs. Sahar Khodaverdi University of Tabriz Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran Specimen: Delphinium seed. The image was acquired from multiple Z-stacked images. Technique: Epi-fluorescence 10th Place Mr. Charles Krebs Issaquah, Washington, USA Specimen: Butterfly "Prola Beauty" (Panacea prola) wing scales, 200X. Technique: Diffused reflected illumination Olympusbioscapes

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