2008 Small World Competition Winners
- 1st Prize - Michael Stringer
Specimen: Pleurosigma (marine diatoms)
- 2nd Prize - Paul Marshall
Specimen: Carbon nanotubes, post growth
- 3rd Prize - Albert Tousson
Specimen: Convallaria majalis (Lily of the Valley)
- 4th Prize - Dr. Matthew Springer
Specimen: Dictyostelium discoideum
- 5th Prize - Charles Kazilek
Specimen: Japanese specialty paper fibers (Sugixawa Tenjyo)
- 6th Prize - Klaus Bolte
Specimen: Chrysolina fastuosa (Micro leaf beetle) on a pin head
- 7th Prize - Dr. Margaret Oechsli
Specimen: Mitomycin (anti-cancer drug)
- 8th Prize - John Hart
Specimen: Mixture of resorcinal, methylene blue, and sulphur
- 9th Prize - David Walker
Specimen: Compact disc case detail
- 10th Prize - Harold Taylor
Specimen: Orchestia gammarella (sand hopper)
- 11th Prize - Wim van Egmond
Specimen: Diatoms on red alga
- 12th Prize - Charles Krebs
Specimen: Rear leg section of (Hemiptera corixidae)
- 13th Prize - Milan Kosanovic
Specimen: Recrystallized Vitamin C
- 14th Prize - Charles Krebs
Specimen: Closterium, diatoms and Spirogyra
- 15th Prize - Wim van Egmond
Specimen: Radiolarians, fossil shells
- 16th Prize - Richard Bulgin
Specimen: Transfected fibroblast with lamellipodia
- 17th Prize - Monica Pons
Specimen: Arabidopsis thaliana root
- 18th Prize - Dr. Tamily Weissman
Specimen: “Brainbow” transgenic mouse hippocampus
- 19th Prize - Eric Kalkman
Specimen: Neurospora crassa (bread mold)
- 20th Prize - Kiel, Germany
Specimen: Sergestes larva (deep-water decapod crustacean)
Prize Winners
- Dr. Pedro Barrios-Perez
Opening in wrinkled photoresist
- Matthew Cook
Calanoid copepods (zooplankton)
- Karl Deckart
Ammonium oxalate crystal
- Dr. Rachel Fink
Fundulus heteroclitus (killifish) embryos
- Dr. Andy Fischer
Vertical section of a chick retina
- Michael Gibson
Single desmid, Closterium
- Torri Hancock
Phakopsora pachyrhizi, (Soybean Rust)
- Charles Krebs
Wing scales of Urania riphaeus
- Edwin Lee
Shaving cream with water
- Dr. Jean Livet
“Brainbow” mouse brain stem
- Dr. Tsutomu Seimiya
Micro-flow pattern in thinning soap film
- Dr. Jaswant Singh
Heated micropipette containing oocytes
- Daphne Zbaeren-Colbourn
Acrostichum aureum, mangrove fern
- Dr. Petr Znachor
Coiled filamentous Anabaena sp.
Honorable Mentions
- Laurence Acland
Snowflake
- Jose Almodovar
Wood cross section
- Jose Almodovar
Diatoms
- David Almquist
Helicopsyche borealis larva in its case
- Dr. Paul Appleton
Villi of small intestine
- Dr. Paul Appleton
Tube-like crypts in the mouse small intestine
- Norm Barker
Computer chip
- Dr. Pedro Barrios-Perez
Reflown photoresist
- Dr. Pedro Barrios-Perez
Oxidation of III-V semiconductor
- Dr. Robert Berdan
Caffeine crystals
- Dr. Lynn Boatner Hu Longmire
Zinc Oxide single crysta
- Klaus Bolte
Hylastes nigrinus (micro bark beetle)
- Klaus Bolte
Glossina sp. (tsetse fly head)
- Dr. Matteo Bonazzi
Listeria monocytogenes
- Appie Bonis
Diatom composition
- Matthias Burba
Diatoms (1891 J.D. Möller arrangement)
- Dr. Greg Cooksey
Dyes moving through a microfluidic device
- Doug Craft
Melt crystal of phenol (carbolic acid)
- Dr. M. Dadpour
Citrus flower primordium
- Karl Deckart
Soap film
- Michael Dingley
Quinine Crystals
- Dr. Laurence Dubreil
Section of dog skeletal muscle
- Dr. Rory Duncan
Secretory cells with vesicles
- Dr. Sharona Even-Ram
Cluster of neurons
- Dr. Rachel Fink
Loligo pealei (squid embryos)
- Dr. Manfred Friedrich
Crystallized 2-Aminobutyric acid trifluoracetate
- Darren Gray
Liquid poly (dimethylsiloxane)
- Alex Griman
Oryzias latipes eggs in Vesicularia dubyana
- Ralph Grimm
Aristolochia sp., two year old stem
- John Hart
Chlorobenzyl alcohol, resorcinal, and sulphur
- James Hayden
Thrips
- Dr. Anthony Hayes
Helianthus sp. pollen
- Sharyn Hedrick
Climacosphenia moniligera (diatom)
- Michael Hendricks
Three day zebrafish brain
- Dr. Jose Herrera
Aspergillus niger on malt extract agar
- Dr. Kerstin Honer zu Bentrup
Pig heart cells
- Dr. Guichuan Hou
Drosophila compound eyes
- J. Claire Hoving
Nippostrongylus brasiliensis (parasitic worm)
- Dr. John Huisman
Amansia reproductive branches
- Vera Hunnekuhl
Earthworm Embryo
- Dr. Ales Kladnik
Chloroplasts Elodea canadensis
- Dr. Oleg Lavrentovich
Nematic liquid crystal film
- Dr. Sara Lindsay
Marine worm muscles (Polydora cornuta)
- Natasha K. Loeblich
Wall paints from 18th-century theater
- Dr. Arnaud Mailleux
E13.5 mouse embryo
- Jan Michels Olga Lévai
Coscinodiscus wailesii
- Torey Miller
Canada Balsam
- Dr. Juan Alberto Morales
Spirocamallanus sp. nematode
- Jasper Nance
Marine polychaete worm (fireworm)
- Dr. Shirley Owens
Gladiola pollen
- Tomas Pais de Azevedo
Chick embryo
- Olena Palyvoda
Rat embryo cortical neuronal network
- Fabrice Parais
Trichoptera Odontocerum albicorne larvae
- Fabrice Parais
Diptera Atherix ibis larvae
- Krystian Polak
Water
- Dr. Colin Rickman
E. coli cells expressing cytosolic chaperone
- Gabriela Roca
Neurospora crassa (bread mold)
- Dr. Gerhard Rohringer
Bdelloid rotifer
- Dr. Gerhard Rohringer
Salt crystal
- Dr. Nasser Rusan
LLC-PK1 (pig epithelial) cells
- Catherine Russell & Jiangshui Huang
Polystyrene film with water droplets
- Steven Ruzin & Paul Bethke
Germinating Arabidopsis seed
- Dr. Fatima Santos
Mouse blastocyst (epigenetic marks)
- Donald Schick
Neon bubbles
- Neil Sparshott
Rat embryo cerebral cortex
- Viktor Sykora
Soap bubbles in Petri dish
- Viktor Sykora
Zygocactus truncatus flower
- Andrew Taylor
Logo on bottom of a plastic Petri plate
- Dr. Manuel Thery
HeLa cell dividing on fibronectin micro-pattern
- Albert Tousson
Isolated fruit fly wings
- Wim van Egmond
Mitraria larva of Owenia fusiformis
- Daniel Vega
Quercus sp. leaf gall
- David Walker
First aid dressing gauze
- Dr. Bernd Walz
Living radiolarian
- Peter Webber
Copper sulphate crystals
- Dr. Arlene Wechezak
Actinocyclus sp. diatom shell
- Dr. William B. Winborn
Human epididymis duct
- Dr. Torsten Wittmann
Cytoskeleton in human keratinocytes
- Stephan Wolfsried
Arsenuranospathite
- Dr. Klaus Yde
Stamen of a Rhododendron (rh strigilosum)
