2009 Small World Competition Winners
- 1st Prize - Dr. Heiti Paves
Specimen: Anther of Arabidopsis thaliana (20x)
- 2nd Prize - Mr. Gerd A. Guenther
Specimen: Sonchus asper (L.)
- 3rd Prize - Dr. Pedro Barrios-Perez
Specimen: Wrinkled photoresist (200x)
- 4th Prize - Mr. James Hayden
Specimen: Anglerfish Ovary, H&E stain (4x)
- 5th Prize - Mr. Bruno Vellutini
Specimen: Clypeaster subdepressus
- 6th Prize - Dr. Havi Sarfaty
Specimen: Scales of Discus fish (20x)
- 7th Prize - Dr. Shirley Owens
Specimen: Black eyed Susan vine (450x)
- 8th Prize - Dr. Lloyd Donaldson
Specimen: Cotton fibres stained with berberine sulphate
- 9th Prize - Dr. Bernardo Cesare
Specimen: golden pyroxene and blue plagioclase
- 10th Prize - Dr. Arlene Wechezak
Specimen: Algae and diatoms (10x)
- 11th Prize - Mr. Dominik Paquet
Specimen: 7 day old Tau-transgenic zebrafish (10x)
- 12th Prize - Dr. Tsutomu Seimiya
Specimen: Flow Pattern in Draining Soap Film (10x)
- 13th Prize - Dr. John Hart
Specimen: Acetanalide, resorcinal, and carbon tetrabromide
- 14th Prize - Mrs. Tora Bardal
Specimen: Lobster egg, no preparation (3.2x)
- 15th Prize - Mr. Fabrice Parais
Specimen: Diptera Atherix ibis larva
- 16th Prize - Mr. Massimo Brizzi
Specimen: Limnea eggs
- 17th Prize - Dr. Rebekah Helton
Specimen: Stopwatch (2.5x)
- 18th Prize - Dr. Julia Sero
Specimen: Human dermal fibroblast stimulated with PDGF (60x)
- 19th Prize - Miss Yanping Wang
Specimen: Cloumn-with-plate-type snowflake (40x)
- 20th Prize - Dr. Havi Sarfaty
Specimen: Rusted coin found in the ground (40x)
Prize Winners
- Dr. Dylan Burnette
Ciliated protozoa (1700x)
- Dr. Kirk Czymmek
Arabidopsis (flowering plant) root (25x)
- Thomas Deerinck
Rat cerebellum (200x)
- Dr. Nils O. E. Krutzfeldt
Whole finch testicle (4x)
- David Millard
Fire agate (10x)
- Larry Millet
Aspergillus mold in microfluidic device (20x)
- Dr. Juan Alberto Morales
Aspergillus sp. (250x)
- Dr. Heiti Paves
Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress) anther
- Juergen Pfleiderer
Buccinum undatum (sea snail) radula (100x)
- Dr. Geetu Saxena
Liquid crystal between two glass slides (20x)
- Viktor Sýkora
Hoya carnosa (Wax plant) flower (10x)
- Bruno Vellutini
Clypeaster subdepressus
- Dr. Uwe Weierstall
Droplets ejected from vibrating glass nozzle
- Dr. Ting Xie
Fruit fly ovary section (400x)
- Dr. Robert Zucker
Mosquito larvae (100x)
Honorable Mentions
- Dr. Hermann Aberle
Drosophila larva (35x)
- Tracy Anderson
Dried toluidine blue on a Petri dish (7x)
- Dr. Pascal Ballester
Salicornia europea (sprout) (20x)
- Norm Barker
Dinosaur bone, Jurassic period (15x)
- Dr. Pedro Barrios-Perez
GaAs sample oxidized in water vapor (200x)
- Dr. Jorge Bernardino de la Serna
Giant liposomes (40x)
- Alistair Boettiger
Wild-type Drosophila melanogaster embryos
- Dr. Christian Bohley
Degenerating blue phase II crystals (100x)
- Appie Bonis
Tilia sp. stem (500x)
- Appie Bonis
Silver sand (500x)
- Dr. Lawrence Bowler
Dover Sole skin (20x)
- Dennis Breitsprecher
Fluorescent actin bundles
- Massimo Brizzi
Backswimmer aquatic insect (100x)
- Dr. Timothy Bromage
Forelimb bone from rat on Space Shuttle
- Karl Bruun
Rhizosolenia setigera (diatoms) (200x)
- Matthias Burba
Antique microscope slide featuring diatoms
- Dr. G. Lorenzo Calzoni
Transverse section of brown algae (40x)
- Dr. Bernardo Cesare
Nummulitic limestone (2.5x)
- Dr. Daniel Cooper
Fish scale base, whole mount (125x)
- Denis Cote
Chalcedony with quartz in quartzite
- Doug Craft
Benzoic Acid melt crystal (40x)
- Doug Craft
Benzoic Acid melt crystal (40x)
- Doug Culley
Grey cast iron (1000x)
- Karl E. Deckart
Soap film (10x)
- Ravi Desai
Normal rat kidney epithelial cells (630x)
- Dr. Dirk Dormann
Dictyostelium discoideum (100x)
- Dr. Theresa Freeman
Synchondrosis of wt mouse with antibodies
- Christian Gautier
2 pinnae of Aspidium Felix (fern) (20x)
- Dr. Yulia Getmanenko
1,4-di-(n-tridecylthophene-2-yl)-benzene (200x)
- Roy Goldberg
Photonic crystals prepared from dried silica
- Lyle Gordon
Chaetopleura Apiculata (Chiton) radula (100x)
- Dr. Daniela Grifoni
Mullerian epithelium from human fallopian tube
- Jesper Grønne
A drop of pond water (100x)
- Didier Grunwald
Moth proboscis (10x)
- Eric Guyton
Microalgae in silicone matrix (10,000x)
- Hillary Guzik
Mammal heart (10x)
- Dr. Rainer Haberberger
Mouse dorsal root ganglion (1200x)
- Dr. Jens Hallfeldt
Stephanoceros fimbriata (rotifer) (80x)
- Dr. Roger Hangarter
Salamander larvae in egg with green algae
- Dr. Roger Hangarter
Green hydra anchored on jelly surface
- John Hart
Carbon tetra-bromide and resorcinol (33x)
- Sharyn Hedrick
Diatom (480x)
- Jennifer Hill
Section of circuit board (20x)
- Karie Holtermann
Raindrop on butterfly wing (20x)
- J. Claire Hoving
Nippostrongylus brasiliensis (nematode)
- Dr. Richard Howey
Dumbbell sponge spicule (125x)
- Dr. Eric Hwang
Neuronally differentiated P19 cells (400x)
- Pushpendra Jain
Polished grey banded Carnelian (3x)
- Frederick Keeney
Carcenoma cells (40x)
- Dr. Richard Levenson
Cirrhotic liver stained with hematoxylin (20x)
- Dr. Tie Liu
Arabidopsis (flowering plant) cell (50 µM)
- Kathleen Llorens
Re-crystallized urea
- Mark Lloyd
Human ileum (20x)
- Dr. Stephen Lowry
Dennstaedtia sp. (Cup fern)
- Martin Mach
Echiniscus mediantus (tardigrade, water bear)
- Ashley Marcellus
Eriophorum vaginatum (Tussock cottongrass)
- Ashley Marcellus
Eriophorum vaginatum (Tussock cottongrass)
- Dr. Robert Markus
Drosophila melanogaster immune cells (200x)
- Dr. Robert Markus
Microprocessor with a pollen grain
- Artur Matysik
Ammonium Dichromate, crystallized (160x)
- Artur Matysik
Beer bubbles (160x)
- Dr. Jan Michels
Daphnia pulex (water flea) (10x)
- Dr. Alvaro Migotto
Echinometra lucunter (sea urchin), oral view
- Dr. Marian Miller
Gastric secreting cells of a mouse (40x)
- Torey Miller
Pinus sample (10x)
- Marek Mis
Micrasterias sp. (green algae) (200x)
- Marek Mis
Closterium sp. (green algae) (200x)
- Dr. Daniel Mulvihill
Cells probed with antibodies (100x)
- Dr. Stephen Nagy
Sea Cucumber skin and anchors (7.5x)
- James Nicholson
Coral, living specimen (6x)
- Earl Nishiguchi
Drosophila melanogaster salivary glands
- Dr. Georg Nikolaus Nyman
Agate - thin polished section (200x)
- Alan Opsahl
Mouse Purkinje cells (40x)
- Dr. Gregor Overney
Diatom arrangement (200x)
- Dr. Shirley Owens
Oenothera elata pollen grains
- Karina Palma
Neuropil in the zebrafish epithalamus (40x)
- Yuchin Pan
Three day old Brainbow zebrafish larva (20x)
- Dominik Paquet
Seven day old Tau-transgenic zebrafish (10x)
- Fabrice Parais
Coleoptera: Elmis sp. (beetle) larva (60x)
- Fabrice Parais
Diptera: Simulidae (fly) larva head (40x)
- Dr. Heiti Paves
Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress) stigma
- Dr. Celine Planchez
Mouse brain pyramidal cells (20x)
- Dr. Gregory Richter
Urea and mannitol melt recrystallization (10x)
- Frederique Ruf-Zamojski
Zebrafish embryo living specimen (40x)
- Dr. Carlo Sala
Hippocampal neuron (63x)
- Svetlana Savic-Sevic
Photonic crystal structure holographically (100x)
- Shmuel Silberman
Embryo of guppy fish (40x)
- Raymond Sloss
Lily Anther, transverse section (250x)
- Josef Spacek
Lime tree leaf vessels (30x)
- Viktor Sykora
Lichen (10x)
- Michelle Tebbe
Alpha-quartz with hematite and goethite (10x)
- Dr. Anand Krishna Tiwari
Axonal projections of an ommatidium (40x)
- Wim van Egmond
Ceratium hirundinella living specimen (400x)
- Wim van Egmond
Filinia terminalis (rotifer) (250x)
- Marc Van Hove
Top of Metal carpet-making tufting hook (5x)
- Daniel Vega
Gall formed by Trigonaspis mendesi (4x)
- Dr. Adele Vincent
Dessicated phosphate-buffered saline (100x)
- Dr. Daniel Webber
Human embryonic stem cells (20x)
- Dr. Arlene Wechezak
Diatom colonies with algae 'eyes' (4x)
- Dr. QJ Yuan
Pine skin
- Tong Zhang
Xenopus tadpole
