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The 2006 Micrograph competition concluded with a colourful exhibition displayed at RMS MicroScience2006 event. Of the 160 entries, 78 Images were short listed for the exhibition. Submissions were divided into four categories - EM Life, EM Materials, LM Life and LM Materials, with three prizes awarded in each area.
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EM Life:
"Liquified Pollen"
Colour enhanced and photographically modified pollen grain . SEM image
By Tracey Davey
"Starry Starry Sight"
The two images show stellate hairs and pollen grains along the style of Erysimum scoparium, a member of the cabbage family which is endemic to the Canary Islands. The hairs function to prevent pollen falling down into the nectar at the base of the floral tube. Taken out of context the hairs look like starfish laying eggs on a rock, with a sandy rippled sea bed in the background. Hence the title!
By Jeff Ollerton
"Fly on Sugar"
This is two SEM images of a Fly and of granulates sugar crystals.
By David McCarthy
"Starfish on leaf"
What might look as red starfish on the sea floor are in fact epidermal hairs on the underside of a plant leaf which help to limit prey by insects and damage by parasites.
By Stephanie Schuller
"Synthetic Silica nanoparticles"
By Liane Benning
"Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm embedded in amorphous slime"
The bacteria biofilm was cultured on glass and was stained with SYTO9 green-fluorescent nucleic acid stain, and the surrounding polysaccharide slime with tetramethylrhodamine conjugate wheat germ agglutinin stain.
By Llinos Harris
"Wasp galls on leaf"
Wasp galls found on the underside of a leaf.
By Tanya Hayes
"Ectomycorrhizal root"
Cryo-FESEM image of cryo-preserved and cryo-fractured ectomycorrhizal root of Paxillus involutus/Pinus sylvestris association showing extramatrical mycelium, and hyphal mantle surrounding root and well-developed Hartig net formed by fungus between cortical cells of pine root. Root diameter is approx. 250m.
Marina Fomina
"Cuticular setae"
These are 'scales' on the abdomen of a collembolan specimen, Entomybra flavescens.
By Josephine Orledge
"Fungus encrusted with uranium ('A Touch of Frost')"
Cryo-FESEM image of cryo-preserved sample of ericoid mycorrhizal fungus Hymenoscyphus ericae grown in the presence of metallic depleted uranium (DU) showing encrustation of fungal hyphae with secondary mycogenic uranium mineral. It illustrates the ability of soil symbiotic fungi to transform uranium solids.
By Marina Fomina
"Membrane disruption"
Non bilayer lipid phase seperation forming blocks of cylindrical micells in isolated pea chloroplast membranes, induced by high sucrose concentration.
By Tony Brain
"Influenza"
Haemophilus influenzae bacteria on human nasal epithelium
By Tony Brain
"Harvestman"
SEM of Harvestman an opilionid chelicerate, commonly found in gardens in the UK. Unlike spiders, their relatives, they have delicate pincers and only two eyes.
By David Spears
"Salt Crystal"
Second image is a salt crystal shot on an inverted nomarski nikon microscope
By David Spears
"Section through a Pteris vittata spore"
An ion-induced electron image of a Focussed Ion Beam (FIB) milled section of a Pteris vittata spore.
By Michelle Dickinson
"Centaurea cyanus"
A seed from Centaurea cyanus (Asteraceae) cornflower collected in the UK. The tuft of short ,stiff, scale-like pappus segments at the top repeatedly move in and out with changes in humidity pushing the fruit over the ground a few centimetres from where it falls.
By Rob kesseler
"Silene gallica"
A seed from Silene gallica ((Caryophyllaceae) small-flowered catchfly collected in Greece. The seed displays the intricate surface pattern typical of the pink family, with interlocking convex cells on the seed coat resembling a jig-saw.
By Rob kesseler
"Sea Louse filament"
LS section through the frontal filament of L. Salmonis (salmon sea lice), showing the arrangement of the individual filaments.
By Kevin Mackenzie
"Castilleja flava"
A seed from Castilleja flava (Orobanchaceae) yellow paintbrush collected in the USA. A balloon seed displaying the most extreme form of the typical honeycomb pattern found in wind-dispersed balloon seeds. From a series of studies produced in collaboration with the seed morphologist Dr. Wolfgang Stuppy, Kew.
By Rob kesseler
"Sorghum meristem"
False-coloured low temperature scanning electron micrograph of a dissected Sorghum halepense apical meristem.
By Jill Foundling
"Thrips on Cleavers"
False coloured low temperature scanning electron micrograph of a Thrips on a cleavers (Galium aparine)seed head.
By Jill Foundling
"Sperm bundle of the cicada, Azanicada zuluensis"
Sperm bundle of the cicada, Azanicada zuluensis
By Abraham Chawanji
"It's rude to stick your tongue out!"
Cell emerging from crypt of mouse gut villus
By Stephen Murray
"Epidermal scales on dorsal surface of Eleagnus leaf"
These epidermal scales give the dorsal surface of Eleagnus leaves their silvery appearance and protect the leaves from dehydration and predation.
By Steve Lowry
"Shield bug"
Image of shield bug showing compound eyes, stylet shield, and sensory structures on the head.
By Steve Lowry
"Diatom"
Single extracted from sediment triangular diatom.
By Michael Helias
"Agriotes obscurus"
Anteria view of the head of a wireworm (Agriotes obscurus)
By Trudi Gillespie
"Maggie the Maggot"
Whilst eating my lunch one day I found that the orange segment I was about to pop into my mouth was infested with maggots. I decided to take a closer look at them so popped them into glutaraldehyde and processed for SEM. Image shows head of the maggot with the anchoring hooks.
By Kelly Bateman
"Ciliate"
SEM of Ciliate parasite. Hair like projections, cilia, can be seen protruding from the organism. Banding of the cilia is evident.
By Kelly Bateman
"Inside a HeLa cell nucleus"
SEM image of cell interior using a dry fracture technique
By Sandra Rutherford
"Fibroblast on collagen gel"
Human fibroblasts were grown on collagen gel in order to analyze morfological differences between Down Sydrome and control groups.
By Othon Gervasio
"Fibroblasts on glass"
Human fibroblasts grown on glass to analyze mitosis rate. Picture shows 2 fibroblasts just after division.
By Othon Gervasio
EM Materials:
"NanoLego "
Zinc carboxylate nano crystalline cubic constructions.
By Enrica Biemmi
LM Life:
"A Smoker"
Particles in waste water
By Tonica Boncina
"Actin cytoskeleton and focal adhesion visualization"
For labelling F-actin in cell, fluorescein phalloidin probe is used (green). Labelling of focal adhesions was obtained with an anti-vinculin antibody (red). The nucleus was stained with Hoechst 33258. The merge image was obtained by sequential acquisition of each labelling with MetaMorph software.
By Yasmin Saoudi
"Action of drug on the cytoskeleton"
Cell was treated with nocodazole, a microtubular drug. Cell was then labelled with anti-tubulin antibody (green) and rhodamin-phalloidin (red). Nocodazole induced a complete disassembly of the microtubule network but didnt affect the actin cytoskeleton.
By Yasmin Saoudi
"Moth"
Moth (Lepidoptera, Lithocolletidae)
By Tatiana Gromova
"Rat Foetus"
By Spike Walker
"Coconut butter"
By Spike Walker
"Zebrina pendula stomata"
Leaf underside of Zebrina pendula showing stomata and guard cells, live specimen, no treatment
By Morten Motzfeldt Laane
"Pig Morula"
The image is an optical mid-section of a porcine morula stained with a DNA dye DAPI, pseudo-coloured red with anti-lamin A/C staining in green. Historically, lamins A/C were not thought to be present in early mammalian embryos.
By Joanna Bridger
"The Diatom Pleurosigma Angulatum"
"Pleurosigma Angulatum Test Diaton imaged in high resolution bright-field." By John Dale
"Laser scenning confocal micrograph"
"Maximum projection view of a confocal Z series of a brain stained to show actin in green and perivascular marcophages in red. Strong labeling of the actin cytoskeleton of the blood vessels makes them stand out from the surrounding neuropile."
By Christopher Guerin
"Laser scanning confocal micrograph"
"A 3D volume rendering of a confocal Z series. The image shows a blood vessel in the brainstem. The green labels the actin filaments in the section, red the glial cells and blue cell nuclei. This three dimensional rendering illustrates the morphological interrelation between the blood vessel and the surrounding brain tissue."
By Christopher Guerin
"Embryonic Divisions in C.elegans"
Fist division in C.elegans showing microtubules in red, a kinase in green and DNA in blue
By Costanza Panbianco
"Embryonic Divisions in C.elegans"
C.elegans par-3 mutant showing synchronous cell division with microtubules in red, a kinase in green and DNA in blue
By Costanza Panbianco
"Bread mould (Neurospora crassa)"
(Incrusted spores.The cell wall is in blue (Calcofluor White dye), the media is in magenta (diluted Rhodamine B dye) and the cytosqueleton is in green (GFP protein fused with beta-tubulin cytoesqueleton protein).
By Gabriela Roca
"Dictyostelium sp."
Slide culture of the slime mould Dictyostelium, tilted to give an oblique view
By Ron Oldfield
"Clematis recta - Seeds"
Clematis recta
By Victor Sykora
"Melica transsilvanica - Seeds"
Melica transsilvanica
By Victor Sykora
"Self fertilization"
A flower of transgenic Arabidopsis.
By Heiti Paves
"C. elegans"
Transgenic C. elegans
By Heiti Paves
"Sprouting Leaf"
A two-photon excitation microscopy image of a living, sprouting maize leaf imaged using autofluorescence
By Edward Wild
"Osteoclast resorbing dentine"
Resorbing multinucleated human osteoclast cultured on dentine in vitro. Green shows F-actin, blue shows the nuclei, red shows intracellular acidic vesicles and purple shows the surface of the dentine substrate (dark area is where the cell has resorbed the dentine)
By Fraser Coxon
LM Materials:
"Serpentinised peridotite"
Rock sample from the Oman Ophiolite Complex showing the mesh-like texture caused by serpentinisation (metamorphism) of peridotite.
By Jeremy Ingham
"Mica"
BF Polarized
By Karl Deckart
"Metamizol"
BF Polarized
By Karl Deckart
"Iron Crystals"
Hexagonal iron crystals in and on the surface of a ceramic glaze.
By David Smith
"Topaz"
Three phase inclusion in colourless topaz
By David Smith
"Titanium splash"
Near alpha titanium alloy fatigue tested at 600C with surface failure
By Rainer Joos
"Picasso fish"
AlSi12Li5-alloy
By Christine Mck
