Here are the top 10 winning images of the 2023 Nikon Small World photomicroscopy competition: 1st Place: Rodent optic nerve head showing astrocytes (yellow), contractile proteins (red) and retinal vasculature (green) by Hassanain Qambari and Jayden Dickson. 2nd Place: Matchstick igniting by the friction surface of the box by Ole Bielfeldt. 3rd Place: Breast cancer cells by Malgorzata Lisowska. 4th Place: Venomous fangs of a small tarantula by John-Oliver Dum. 5th Place: Auto-fluorescing defensive hairs covering the leaf surface of Eleagnus angustifolia exposed to UV light by Dr. David Maitland. 6th Place: Slime mold (Comatricha nigra) showing capillitial fibers through its translucent peridium by Timothy Boomer. 7th Place: Mouse embryo by Dr. Grigorii Timin and Dr. Michel Milinkovitch. 8th Place: Caffeine crystals by Stefan Eberhard. 9th Place: Cytoskeleton of a dividing myoblast; tubulin (cyan), F-actin (orange) and nucleus (magenta) by Vaibhav Deshmukh. 10th Place: Motor neurons grown in microfluidic device for separation of cell bodies (top) and axons (bottom). Green – microtubules; Red – growth cones (actin) by Melinda Beccari and Dr. Don W. Cleveland. Press release: Rodent Optic Nerve Head Wins the 49th Annual Nikon Small World Photo Microscopy Competition Nikon Instruments Inc. today unveiled the winners of the 49th annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. This year’s first place prize was awarded to Hassanain Qambari, assisted by Jayden Dickson of the Lions Eye Institute, for his vivid image of a rodent optic nerve head showing astrocytes (yellow), contractile proteins (red), and retinal vasculature (green). The colorful image...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Sunday, 29 October, 2023