Gallery: Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year
0109-harland
9th Place ---------- *Ctenocephalides canis* (flea) (20X) Fluorescence Duane Harland, AgResearch Ltd. Lincoln, New Zealand
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8th Place ---------- Cacoxenite (mineral) (18X), Reflected light Honorio Cocera-La Parra, Geology Museum, University of Valencia Benetusser, Valencia, Spain
0307-shan
7th Place ---------- Endothelial cell attached to synthetic microfibers, stained with microtubules, F-actin and nuclei (2500X), Fluorescence, Confocal Yongli Shan, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Texas
0406-huisman
6th Place ---------- *Martensia sp.* (red seaweed), living specimen (40X), Brightfield John Huisman, Murdoch University, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
0505-sykora
5th Place ---------- *Strelitzia reginae* (bird of paradise) seed (10X) Darkfield Viktor Sykora, Institute of Pathophysiology, First Medical Faculty, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
0604-taiariol
4th Place ---------- Wasp nest (10X), Extended Depth of Field Stereomicroscopy Riccardo Taiariol La Spezia, SP, Italy
0703-braubach
3rd Place ---------- Zebrafish olfactory bulbs (250X), Confocal Oliver Braubach, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
0802-otsuna
2nd Place ---------- 5-day old zebrafish head (20X), Confocal Dr. Hideo Otsuna, University of Utah Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy Salt Lake City, Utah
0910-wang
10th Place ----------- Crystallized soy sauce (16X), Reflected and Transmitted Light Yanping Wang, Beijing Planetarium Beijing, China
1011-andrews
11th Place ----------- Telophase HeLa (cancer) cells expressing Aurora B-EGFP (green) (100X), Deconvolution Paul D. Andrews, University of Dundee Dundee, Scotland, UK
1112-rouse
12th Place ----------- Juvenile bivalve mollusc, *Lima sp.* (10X), Darkfield Gregory Rouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, California
1220-hart
20th Place ----------- Crystallized melt of sulfur and acetanilide (10X), Transmitted John Hart, Hart3D Films and Deptartment of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Univ. Colorado, Boulder Boulder, Colorado
1319-johnson
19th Place ----------- Wistar rat retina outlining the retinal vessel network and associated communication channels (100X), Confocal Cameron Johnson, The University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
1418-guenther
18th Place ----------- Soap film (150X), Incident Brightfield Gerd Guenther Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
1517-krebs
17th Place ----------- Ichneumon wasp compound eye and antenna base (40X), Reflected (Episcopic) Light Illumination Charles Krebs, Charles Krebs Photography Issaquah, Washington
1616-markus
16th Place ----------- *Mirabilis jalapa* (four o’clock flower) stigma with pollen (100X), Epifluorescence and 3D reconstruction Robert Markus, Institute of Genetics, Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Szeged, Hungary
1715-wagner
15th Place ----------- Divaricatic acid from *Evernia divaricata* (lichen), recrystallized from acetone (10X), Polarized light Ralf Wagner Düsseldorf, Germany
1814-lowry
14th Place ----------- Spiral vessels from banana plant stem (32X), Polarized light Stephen Lowry, University of Ulster Londonderry, UK
1913-nicholson
13th Place ----------- Orange Fungia (mushroom coral), live specimen (166X), Fluorescence James Nicholson, NOAA NOS NCCOS Coral Culture and Collaborative Research Facility Charleston, South Carolina
2001-king
