Nikon Instruments announced the winners of the 51st annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, celebrating over five decades of excellence in microscopy and digital imaging: 1st Place Zhang You, Kunming, Yunnan, China Rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae) on a grain of rice Image Stacking 5X (Objective Lens Magnification) 2nd Place Dr. Jan Rosenboom, Rostock, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany Colonial algae (Volvox) spheres in a drop of water Reflected Light 5X (Objective Lens Magnification) 3rd Place John-Oliver Dum, Medienbunker Produktion, Bendorf, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany Pollen in a garden spider web Image Stacking 20X (Objective Lens Magnification) 4th Place Dr. James Hayes, Vanderbilt University, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Heart muscle cells with chromosomes condensed following cell division Confocal 100X (Objective Lens Magnification) 5th Place Dr. Igor Siwanowicz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, USA Spores (blue/purple structures) of a small tropical fern (Ceratopteris richardii) Confocal 25X (Objective Lens Magnification) 6th Place Dr. Francisco Lázaro-Diéguez, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA Rat liver cells Confocal 63X (Objective Lens Magnification) 7th Place Stella Whittaker, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Bethesda, Maryland, USA iPSC-derived sensory neurons labelled to show tubulin and actin Confocal, Fluorescence, Image Stacking, 10X (Objective Lens Magnification) 8th Place Dr. Igor Siwanowicz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Janelia Research Campus Ashburn, Virginia, USA Mallow pollen germinating on stigma while being parasitized by a filamentous fungus Confocal, 40X (Objective Lens Magnification) 9th Place Wim van Egmond, Micropolitan...
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