Nikon Small World 2016: Winners & Honorable Mentions

1. 1st Place: Dr Oscar
Ruiz, the University of
Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center,
Houston, Texas, US:
Four-day-old zebrafish
embryo – Confocal,
10x

2. 2nd Place: Douglas L
Moore, University of
Wisconsin – Stevens
Point Museum of
Natural History,
Stevens Point,
Wisconsin, USA:
Polished slab of
Teepee Canyon agate
– Stereomicroscopy,
90x

3. 3rd Place: Rebecca
Nutbrown University of
Oxford, Nuffield
Department of Clinical
Neurosciences Oxford,
United Kingdom: Culture of
neurons (stained green)
derived from human skin
cells, and Schwann cells, a
second type of brain cell
(stained red) –
Confocal/Immunofluoresce
nce/iPSCs, 20x

4. 4th Place: Jochen Schroeder, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Butterfly proboscis – Image Stacking, 6.3x

5. 5th Place: Dr Igor Siwanowicz,
Howard Hughes Medical
Institute (HHMI), Janelia
Research Campus, Ashburn,
Virginia, USA: Front foot
(tarsus) of a male diving
beetle – Confocal, 100

6. 6th Place: Marek Mis, Podlaskie, Poland: Air
bubbles formed from melted ascorbic acid
crystals – Polarized Light, 50x

7. 7th Place: Dr David Maitland, Feltwell, United
Kingdom: Leaves of Selaginella (lesser club moss) –
Differential Interference Contrast, 40x

8. 8th Place: Samuel Silberman, Monoson Yahud, Israel: Wildflower stamens – Fiber Optic Illumination, 40x

9. 9th Place: Vin Kitayama and Sanae Kitayama,
Vinsanchi Art Museum, Azumino, Nagano, Japan
Espresso coffee crystals – Polarized Light

10. 10th Place: Rogelio Moreno Gill, Panama, Panama: Frontonia (single-celled organism) showing ingested food, cilia, mouth and trichocysts – Differential Interference Contrast, 200x

11. 11th Place: Francis Sneyers Brecht, Belgium: Scales of a butterfly wing underside (Vanessa atalanta) – Macroscopy, 10x

12. 12th Place: Dr Dylan Burnette,
Vanderbilt University School
of Medicine Nashville,
Tennessee, USA – Human
HeLa cell undergoing cell
division (cytokinesis). DNA
(yellow), myosin II (blue) and
actin filaments (red) –
Structured Illumination, 9x

13. 13th Place: Walter Piorkowski,
South Beloit, Illinois, USA: Poison
fangs of a centipede (Lithobius
erythrocephalus) – Fibre Optic
Illumination/Image Stacking, 16x

14. 14th Place: Dr Keunyoung Kim, University of
California, San Diego, National Center for
Microscopy and Imaging Research, La Jolla,
California, USA: Mouse retinal ganglion cells –
Fluorescence/Confocal 40x

15. 15th Place: Geir Drange,
Asker, Norway: Head
section of an orange
ladybird (Halyzia
sedecimguttata) –
Reflected Light/Focus
Stacking, 10x

16. 16th Place: Stefano Barone, Diatom Shop, Palazzo Pignano, Italy: 65 fossil Radiolarians (zooplankton) carefully arranged by hand in Victorian style – Darkfield, 100x

17. 17th Place: Jose Almodovar, University
of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus,
Biology Department, Mayaguez, Puerto
Rico: Slime mould (Mixomicete) – Image
Stacking/Reflected Light, 5x

18. 18th Place: Pia Scanlon,
Department of Agriculture
and Food, Western Australia:
Parts of wing-cover (elytron),
abdominal segments and hind
leg of a broad-shouldered leaf
beetle (Oreina cacaliae) –
Stereomicroscopy, Image
Stacking, 40x

19. 19th Place: Dr Gist F Croft, Lauren Pietilla,
Stephanie Tse, Dr. Szilvia Galgoczi, Maria
Fenner, Dr Ali H. Brivanlou, Rockefeller
University, Brivanlou Laboratory New York,
New York, USA: Human neural rosette
primordial brain cells, differentiated from
embryonic stem cells – Confocal, 10x

20. 20th Place: Michael Crutchley, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom: Fungi on cow dung – Darkfield, 30x

21. Honorable mentions

22. Zebrafish fin with
cylindrical bone
segments and rows
of pigmented
epithelial cells
(50x).Dr. Leonardo
Andrade

23. Scales of a butterfly wing
(10x). Evan Darling

24. Dentate gyrus of a optically-cleared transgenic mouse brainin 3D
(10x).Hei Ming Lai & Dr. Wutian Wu

25. Retinal ganglion cellsin the whole-mounted mouse retina
(20x). Dr. Keunyoung Kim

26. Micrasterias thomasiana (algae)
(400x). Jacek Myslowski

27. Tail of a a small shrimp
(40x). Dr. Charles Krebs

28. Seeds of an Indian
Paintbrush wildflower
(Castilleja indivisa)
(4x). David Millard

29. Curvepod Fumewort (Corydalis curvisiliqua) seed
(4.5x). David Millard

30. Leg of a water boatman (Corixidae)
(25x). Marek Miś

31. Interior of a bisected trap of a humped bladderwort
(Urticularia gibba), a fresh water carnivorous plant
(100x). Dr. Igor Siwanowicz

32. Trumpet animalcule containing endosymbionts
(160x). Wim van Egmond

33. Wildflower stamens
(40x). Samuel Silberman

34. Caudal gill of a dragonfly larva
(25x). Marek Miś

35. Gears coupling hind legs
of a planthopper nymph
(250x).Dr. Igor Siwanowicz

36. END20-OCTUBRE-2016