The Best Microscopic Photos From The Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2022 (92 Pics)
For the 48th time, Nikon has held its Small World Photomicrography Competition and the winners of the year 2022 have already been announced!
The awards are celebrating the mesmerizing microscopic world and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography, scientists and enthusiasts alike, through the light microscope.
Scroll down for the stunning photographs and don’t forget to upvote your favorite ones!
For more mesmerizing images, check out the winners of previous contests (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020)!
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The winner of this year’s competition is Grigorii Timin, supervised by Dr. Michel Milinkovitch at the University of Geneva with the image of an embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko. “Masterfully blending imaging technology and artistic creativity, Timin utilized high-resolution microscopy and image-stitching to capture this species of Phelsuma grandis day gecko.”
“Growing tip of a red algae.”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Department of Biology
“Embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko (Phelsuma grandis).”
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Department of Genetics and Evolution
“Differentiated cultured mouse myoblasts with lysosomes (cyan/green), nuclei (yellow), F-actin (magenta).”
Amicus Therapeutics
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
“Longitudinal section through a white asparagus shoot tip.”
Ghent University, Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Department of Biology & Department of Plants and Crops
“Two-month old juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata).”
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
“Transgenic axolotl (CNP:GFP;β3Tubulin:mCherry) showing components of the nervous system. CNP+ Schwann cells (cyan) and axons (magenta).”
MDI Biological Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
“Epithelial cells of a palmskin zebrafish larva.”
Academia Sinica
Chen-Hui Chen’s Lab
Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology
Taipei, Taiwan
“Network of macrophages (white blood cells) of an adult zebrafish intestine.”
University of Oslo, Oslo, Viken, Norway
Department of Biosciences / Immunology
“Bold jumping spider (Phidippus audax).”
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Department of Surgery
Mill Valley, California, USA
“Amino acid crystals (L-glutamine and beta-alanine).”
University of Colorado Boulder
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Boulder, Colorado, USA
“Cross sections of normal human colon epithelial crypts.”
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas, USA
“Long-bodied cellar/daddy long-legs spider (Pholcus phalangioides).”
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Mill Valley, California, USA
Department of Surgery
“Larva of an anemone, found in marine plankton.”
Micropolitan Museum
Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
“Murine sensory-motor cortex following mild traumatic brain injury in a transgenic mouse (expressing Thy1-GFP).”
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Wexner Medical Center
Department of Neuroscience
“Radula (rasping tongue) of a marine snail (Turbinidae family).”
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Ashburn, Virginia, USA
Janelia Research Campus
“Artery of an Atlantic salmon filled with nucleated red blood cells.”
University of Oslo
Department of Biosciences / Immunology
Oslo, Viken, Norway
“Stinger of a small paper wasp (Vespidae Protopolybia).”
La Fortuna de San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica
“Cross section of a leaf of dune grass (Ammophila arenaria).”
Children’s Ecological and Biological Center
Department of Botany
Omsk, Russia
“Autofluorescence of a single coral polyp (approx. 1 mm).”
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science
“Unburned particles of carbon released when the hydrocarbon chain of candle wax breaks down.”
Macrofying
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
“Intestinal villi (brush border in magenta).”
Medical University of South Carolina
Department of Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
“Human cardiomyocytes (heart cells) derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.”
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Center for Cardiovascular Research
“Human neurons derived from neural stem cells (NSCs).”
University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Central Clinical School
Professor Glenda Halliday’s Lab
“Human lung cell infected with coronavirus.”
Arizona State University
Biodesign Institute
Biodesign Imaging Facility, Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines, and Virotherapy
Tempe, Arizona, USA
“Blood vessels in the diaphragm of a 9-day-old mouse pup.”
University of Helsinki
Individualized Drug Therapy Research Program, Faculty of Medicine
Helsinki, Finland
“3D rendering of the endoplasmic reticulum in a tissue culture cell.”
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Janelia Research Campus
Ashburn, Virginia, USA
“Tip of Pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana). Chlorophyll fluoresces red, lignin blue.”
Feltwell, Norfolk, United Kingdom
“Zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryo head 72 hours after fertilization.”
Brown University
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
“Liquid crystal mixture (smectic Felix 015).”
Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics
“Migrating human fibroblast stained for the Golgi (orange), the actin cytoskeleton (magenta), and the nucleus (cyan).”
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Department of Biology
“Staff sergeant butterfly eggs (Athyma selenophora).”
Zhuhai Photographers Association
Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
“Nerve network within the skin of zebrafish (Danio rerio) scales. Different colors depict the different planes and depth of the nerves in individual scales.”
University of Washington
Department of Biology
Seattle, Washington, USA
“Montage of human cells in different stages of mitosis. Chromosomes (orange) and microtubules (white) are shown.”
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Janelia Research Campus
Ashburn, Virginia, USA
“Human lung cell expressing antiviral Mx1 protein (green), microtubules (cyan) and nuclei (orange).”
The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Université de Montpellier (UM)
Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier (IRIM)
Montpellier, Hérault, France
“Living polyps of a reef-building lobe coral (Porites lobata).”
University of Essex
School of Life Sciences
Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom
“Disco fungus (Lachnum clandestinum) growing on a raspberry (Rubus idaeus).”
Helsinki, Uudenmaan lääni, Finland
“Mouse retina.”
Thomas Jefferson University
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
“Mouse cornea vasculature (arteries, veins and lymphatics).”
University of Utah
Department of Neurobiology
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
“Bacterial biofilm on a human tongue cell.”
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Keith R. Porter Imaging Facility
“Tail fin of a zebrafish larva with peripheral nerves (green) and extracellular matrix (violet).”
Max Planck Institue for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany
Department of Biological Optomechanics
“Blood vessel networks in the intestine of an adult mouse.”
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Individualized Drug Therapy Research Program, Faculty of Medicine
“A crawling cell.”
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
“The actomyosin network at the apical pole of human corneal endothelial cells (revealed by immunofluorescence).”
University Jean Monnet
School of Medicine
Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, Rhône-Alpes, France
“3D imaging of the vasculature network in an adult mouse spinal cord.”
The Ohio State University
Wexner Medical Center
Department of Neuroscience
Columbus, Ohio, USA
“Spokes of amino acid.”
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Department of Biological Science and Bioengineering
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
“Digital PCR plate set up with RNA extracted from viruses in wastewater sludge (multiplexed with primer probes of SARS-CoV2, spiked BCoV, and PMMoV).”
City of San Jose Regional Wastewater Lab
San Jose, California, USA
“Lung of a 16.5 day old embryonic mouse with airways labeled by SOX2 (pink) and epithelial progenitors by SOX9 (green).”
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Pulmonary Medicine
Houston, Texas, USA
“African green monkey kidney cells (COS-7) with Golgi (blue), lysosomes (green), actin cytoskeleton (magenta) and nuclei (yellow).”
Amicus Therapeutics
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
“Pathogenic Shigella flexneri bacteria spreading outwards from an infected cell.”
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
“Clustered iPSC derived neurons.”
VIB (Flanders Institute of Biotechnology)
Center for Brain and Disease Research
Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
“Developing nervous system of a zebrafish (Danio rerio) six days after fertilization.”
Brown University
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
“Breast tissue showing contractile myoepithelial cells wrapped around milk-producing alveoli.”
WEHI, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Department of Immunology
“A cell with extra centrosomes beginning to divide.”
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
“A double nuclei Bovine Pulmonary Artery Endothelial (BPAE) cell.”
Northwestern University
Biological Imaging Facility
Evanston, Illinois, USA
“Etch tube in Brazilian quartz with iron oxide staining.”
Mineralien LLC
Valley Village, California, USA
“European pear rust fungus (Gymnosporangium fuscum), colony of ecidio.”
Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Georgikon Faculty
Department of Plant Protection
Keszthely, Zala, Hungary
“Whole-mounted adult mouse heart.”
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology and Biophysical Chemistry
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
“Nurse cell in a developing fruit fly (Drosophila) follicle.”
University of Iowa
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
“Embryonic mouse.”
Baylor College of Medicine
Center for Precision Environmental Health
Houston, Texas, USA
“Bacterial colony.”
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI)
Department of Paleobiotechnology
Jena, Thuringia, Germany
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