Ever wonder what it looks like when algae have sex activity ? Now you ’ll rule out in this winning video recording from the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Contest . More winning entries in our gallery , which includes an ameba vs. barm cell smackdown .
Every yr , the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Contest pay for mental imagery expert and amateurs to submit their practiced examples of microscopy – in still and video recording form . The resultant role , as you may see , are incredible .
The top prize is $ 5,000 worth of Olympus imaging equipment . In addition , twenty - two of the 2009 winning and Honorable Mention image will also be exhibit in a winners ’ tour that will travel to San Diego , California , New York City ; suburban Washington DC ; Philadelphia , Baltimore , and other cities . Additional exhibit of BioScapes effigy will simultaneously be tour cities across the U.S. and Canada throughout 2009 - 10 .
you may see more winners and good credit on theBioScapes page .
Sexual Attraction in Spyrogyra . This authoritative microscopic field of study illustrates sexual practice in downcast organism and show the exponent of sexual draw even in simple algae . One cell becomes quite ameboid as it squeezes through the narrow-minded dressing tube that the partner cadre have just progress between them . The movie was blast in clip - lapse over 2 hours . By Jeremy Pickett - Heaps , University of Melbourne , Australia . Third Prize .
Water flea Daphnia atkinsoni . This specimen has a “ crown of irritant , ” a justificative trait induced in offspring only when the parents smell chemical substance cue stick released by one of their main predators , the tadpole shrimp Triops cancriformis . The water flea ’s exoskeleton ( exterior structure , green ) and subcellular detail within the organism ( nuclei – flyspeck blue dot ) are both seeable . By Dr. Jan Michels , Department of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics , Institute of Zoology , Christian Albrecht
University of Kiel , Germany . First Prize .
Nucleus of a plant life cell evidence synaptonemal complex , a ravel - comparable protein social organisation that forge between pairing chromosome during miosis ( the cell section required for reproductive memory ) . This may be the first - ever eminent - resolution 3D image of this complex ever enchant with light microscopy . The two parallel axis vertebra of this composite , which launch the length of each chromosome , are experience as two threads spaced 100 - 200 Land of Enchantment aside and sprain around each other in a spiral . By Chung - Ju Rachel Wang , Department of Molecular and Cell Biology , University of California , Berkeley , USA . 2nd Prize .
Fresh piss alga Haematococcus pluvialis , 100x . Phase contrast microscopy . By Charles Krebs , Issaquah , WA , USA . Fourth Prize .
Unicellular alga Penium , regale with the microtubule toxicant oryzalin . By David Domozych , Department of Biology , Skidmore College , Saratoga Springs , NY , USA . Fifth Prize .
Single - cellular telephone smackdown ! Amoeba strain to immerse a yeast cell by Margaret Clarke , Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation , Oklahoma City , OK , USA . Honorable Mention .
CAR fish fibroblast . By Maria Nemethova , Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna , Austria . Honorable Mention .
Adipose tissue paper in living animals . Cellular dynamics and structures including erythorycytes , platelets , white cell , and endothelial cells are visualized through in vivo tomography . Satoshi Nishimura , Tokyo , Japan . Honorable Mention .
Desmid ( green alga ) dividing . desmid are symmetrical cells compile of two identical halves or “ semi - cell ” that have a complex , extremely ornamented and species - specific shape . Every time the cell divides , it is bisect between the two rig - cells . The two daughter cells now have to generate a unexampled , complementary semi - cell to restore the cell ’s normal proportion . This morphogenesis select about 2 hrs . By Jeremy Pickett - Heaps , University of Melbourne , Australia . Honorable Mention .
creep cortical neurons ( brass cells in the mastermind ) . Each 2d in the movie replays one hour in real time ; entire time is 5 day . scientist are looking at the trajectories of the elongating axons . Despite the disorganised culture environment , note the straightforward trajectory of axon growing cone . This eccentric of experiment is extremely difficult ; researchers spent two year optimizing the biology and imaging condition to make this long - full term imagination potential . By Neville Sanjana , Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) , Cambridge , MA , USA . Honorable Mention .
Epidermal bed cells of Lotus japonicus ironic cum . By Mayumi Wakazaki and Kiminori Toyooka , RIKEN Plant Science Center , Yokohama , Japan . Honorable Mention .
Drosophila ( fruitfly ) ovarioles . Fluorescence imaging . By Maria Paula Zappia , IIB - INTECH UNSAM - CONICET , Buenos Aires , Argentina . Honorable Mention .
Apicoplast . Confocal imagination . By Bernd Zobiak , University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf , Hamburg , Germany . Honorable Mention .
Genetically - identified retinal ganglion cell . This study shows that it is potential to target genetically - identified nerve cell , a non- random approach to study cell types . By Tim Viney , Friedrich Miescher Institute , Basel , Switzerland . Honorable Mention .
Fungia eating . Fungia are large single corals that do n’t shape colonies or reef . Their large and very expandable mouth allow them to run through large pieces of food compare to most corals . The moving picture was captured with epifluorescence , using the Fungia ’s own natural auto-fluorescence stimulated by ultraviolet , downcast and green excitement Christ Within . James Nicholson , Coral Culture & Collaborative Research Facility , NOAA NOS NCCOS Center for Coastal Environmental Health & Biomolecular Research , Fort Johnson Marine Lab , Charleston , SC , USA . Honorable Mention .
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