2005 Small World Competition Winners
- 1st Prize - Charles B. Krebs
Specimen: Muscoid fly (house fly)
- 2nd Prize - Thomas J. Deerinck
Specimen: Mouse kidney section
- 3rd Prize - Stefan Eberhard
Specimen: Crystallized Vitamin A
- 4th Prize - Edy Kieser
Specimen: Crystallized succinic acid and urea
- 5th Prize - Neil J. Egan
Specimen: Bacteria growth in Petri dish
- 6th Prize - Margaret N. Oechsli
Specimen: Phenyl threonine
- 7th Prize - Dr. Shirley A. Owens
Specimen: Carpet fibers
- 8th Prize - Thomas J. Deerinck
Specimen: Mouse small intestine
- 9th Prize - Dr. John M. Huisman
Specimen: Chaetomorpha antennina (seaweed)
- 10th Prize - Susan Johnson
Specimen: Vitis vinifera (grape)
- 11th Prize - Ron J. Oldfield
Specimen: Lepidozia sp. (a liverwort) spores and elaters
- 12th Prize - Edy Kieser
Specimen: Crystallized potassium chlorate
- 13th Prize - Chiedozie Ukachukwu
Specimen: Bryozoan Statoblast
- 14th Prize - Dr. Paul D. Andrews
Specimen: Xenopus (frog) XLK2 cell
- 15th Prize - Dr. Shumel Silberman
Specimen: Geranium flower
- 16th Prize - Dr. Donald W. Pottle
Specimen: Evaporated contact lens solution
- 17th Prize - Jan Schmoranzer
Specimen: NIH 3T3 fibroblasts (mouse cells)
- 18th Prize - Dr. Christian Bohley
Specimen: Cholesteric phase of 55% CB15 in E48
- 19th Prize - Ian C. Walker
Specimen: Feather of a Dominican Cardinal Bird
- 20th Prize - Dr. Oliver Skibbe
Specimen: Living diatoms— Pinnularia sp.
Prize Winners
- Tracy E. Anderson
Velcro® being pulled apart
- Dr. Marie-Hélène Bré
Tetrahymena thermophila (protozoa) cells
- Dr. Alistair M. Dove
Homarus americanus (American lobster) larvae
- Conor L. Evans and Eric O. Potma
CARS interferometry of dodecane droplets
- Dr. Patrick C. Hickey
Hyphal tips of Neurospora crassa
- Dr. Dennis D. Kunkel
Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) and sucrose
- Dr. Stephen S. Nagy
Fossil marine diatom, Actinoptychus heliopelta
- Dr. Nasser M. Rusan
LLC-PK1 (pig epithelial) cells
- Catherine Russell and Amanda Leach
Polydimethyl siloxane and polystyrene
- Spike Walker
Film of supersaturated solution
Honorable Mentions
- Mark H. Armitage
Firefly tissue (Photinus pyralis)
- Mark H. Armitage
Fresh gill tissue from fish (Gillichthys mirabilis)
- Dr. Pedro J. Barrios
Etched groove in silicon
- Rakesh Bhatnagar
Corn stem section
- Dr. Francisco Capani
Purkinje cell
- Paul Cuddon
Primary rat hippocampal neurons
- Paul Cuddon
Primary rat hippocampal neurons
- Dr. Edna Cukierman
Pollen grains
- Richard W. Daniels
Neuromuscular synapses in a Drosophila larva
- Karl E. Deckart
Injection molded CD jewel case
- Stefan Eberhard
Recrystallized saccharin
- Dr. Andy J. Fischer
Retina thin section
- Irmgard Fischer
Human skin
- Jerry A. Gleason
Urea crystals
- Dr. Edgar R. Gomes
Fibroblast microtubule organizing center
- Raul M. Gonzalez
Water crystal (25x)
- Ralph C. Grimm
Radiolarians
- Marieka Gryzenhout
Cladonia (lichen)
- Dr. John E. Hart
Acetaldehyde and carbon tetrabromide
- Dr. Patrick C. Hickey
Neurospora crassa germinating spores
- Dr. Borge Holme
Silica sol on a polished steel surface
- Dr. Jan Huisken
Medaka fish embryos
- Zdenka Jenikova
Moth wing scales
- Edy Kieser
Crystallized nickel nitrate and resorcinol
- Dr. Paul Knox
Transverse section of Arabidopsis stem
- Milan Kosanovic
Copper sulphate, nylon fishing Line, nylon bag
- Milan Kosanovic
Fishing line and cellophane tape
- Charles B. Krebs
Water boatman (Hemiptera:Corixidae) rear leg
- Jan C. Kros
Pine leaf transverse section
- Kathryn A. Leach
Silicone oil on a polished silicon wafer
- Dr. Jacques Lefebvre & Pedro Barrios
Contact pad array
- Dr. Ingo Lieberwirth
Light emitting polymer
- Dr. Ingo Lieberwirth
Light emitting polymer
- Dr. Taija Makinen
Mouse dermal lymphatic vessels
- Peggy L. Mann
Dislocations in etched germanium crystal
- Robert Markus
Wing scales of Deilephila elpenor
- Dr. Luis Marrero
Mouse digit tip with nail
- César S. Mendes
Hac-1 in the developing Drosophila eye
- Rodrigo Mexas
Megabalanus azoricus
- Dr. Monika C. Müller
Tentacular crown of Spirorbis spirorbis
- Dr. Kuruganti G. Murti
Fluorescent antibody precipitate, dried
- Ronald N. Neumeyer
Tilia stem
- Ron J. Oldfield
Leaf of the liverwort Podomitrium phyllanthus
- Alan C. Opsahl
Rat seminiferous tubule
- Dr. Shirley A. Owens
Leaf-like structures of a moss gametophyte
- Dr. Stephen W. Paddock
Butterfly pupal wing epithelium
- Costanza Panbianco
Caenorhabditis elegans dissected gonad
- Dr. Heiti Paves
Transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana flower
- Dr. Donald W. Pottle
Kaleido-micrograph of bovine artery cells
- Piotr Rotkiewicz
Soap bubbles
- Dr. Greg W. Rouse
Female syllid polychaete with embryos
- Dr. John Runions
Eight-cell plant embryo
- Dr. John Runions
A living root tip growing in agar
- Neal R. Scruggs
Ferroelectric liquid crystal
- Stuart Shand
Rat gut
- Dr. David R. Sherwood
Caenorhabditis elegans
- Dr. Oliver Skibbe
Caloneis amphisbaena diatom
- Ron Sturm
Dried Silica and aqueous colloidal solution
- Joshua D. Sugar
Surface cavities partially filled with a metal alloy
- Viktor Sykora
Drosera scorpioides
- Viktor Sykora
Drosera coccicaulis
- Tomasz Szul
Cultured rat lung fibroblasts
- Harold Taylor
Diatoms
- Kristina Thaemelt
Radiata pine impregnated with chitosan
- Dr. Carsten Tschierske
B1 liquid crystal phase
- Dr. Rudolf Oldenbourg
Polystyrene sphere coated with ActA protein
- Nikolai N. Vsevolodov
Recrystallized lysine
- Morgan Woods
Rat spinal cord astrocytes
- Dr. Robert M. Zucker
Mosquito larvae
- Dr. Robert M. Zucker
Mosquito larvae
