2011 Small World Competition Winners
- 1st Prize - Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
Specimen: Portrait of a Green lacewing larva (20x)
- 2nd Prize - Dr. Donna Stolz
Specimen: Autofluorescence signal of blade of grass (200x)
- 3rd Prize - Mr. Frank Fox
Specimen: Melosira moniliformis (24x)
- 4th Prize - Dr. Robin Young
Specimen: Detail of the underside of the leafy liverwort (20x)
- 5th Prize - Mr. Alfred Pasieka
Specimen: Microchip surface (500x)
- 6th Prize - Mr. Dennis Callahan
Specimen: 1 micron thick films of cracked GaAs cells (50x)
- 7th Prize - Mr. Gabriel Luna
Specimen: Retinal wholemount (40x)
- 8th Prize - Dr. Bernardo Cesare
Specimen: Graphite-bearing rock from Kerala, India (2.5x)
- 9th Prize - Dr. Jan Michels
Specimen: Ventral side of the marine copepod (10x)
- 10th Prize - Ms. Joan Röhl
Specimen: Daphnia magna (100x)
- 11th Prize - Dr. Jan Michels
Specimen: Frontal view of an ant head (10x)
- 12th Prize - Mr. Thomas Deerinck
Specimen: Cultured HeLa cells (300x)
- 13th Prize - Dr. Stephen S. Nagy
Specimen: Chondrodendron tomentosum vine (45x)
- 14th Prize - Miss Yanping Wang
Specimen: Sands from Qingdao in China (4x)
- 15th Prize - Mr. James Nicholson
Specimen: Colonial stony coral (Porites lobata) (12x)
- 16th Prize - Dr. Christopher Guerin
Specimen: Cells on a bio-polymer scaffold (63x)
- 17th Prize - Dr. Witold Kilarski
Specimen: One alive and dead worm in the lymphatic (150x)
- 18th Prize - Mr. Benjamin Blonder
Specimen: Young quaking aspen leaf (4x)
- 19th Prize - Dr. Donna Stolz
Specimen: Variety of mammalian cells immuno-stained (200x)
- 20th Prize - Mr. Douglas Moore
Specimen: Agatized dinosaur bone cells (42x)
Prize Winners
- Mr. Jose R. Almodovar
Bladder of a plant (Utricularia) (40x)
- Dr. Paul Appleton
Mouse small intestine (40x)
- Dr. Pedro Barrios-Perez
GaSb semiconductor wafer (200x)
- Dr. Jorge Bernardino de la Serna
Giant liposomes of pulmonary surfactant (40x)
- Mr. Gerd A. Guenther
Freshwater ciliate (630x)
- Mr. Gerd A. Guenther
Freshwater ciliate (1000x)
- Dr. Marta Guervos
Pollen grains of Silver Wattle tree (40x)
- Mr. Charles Krebs
Hydra capturing water flea (40x)
- Dr. David Maitland
Male St.Mark's Fly (Bibio marci) (10x)
- Miss Madelyn May
Rat cerebral cortex (40x)
- Ms. Poulomi Ray
Intestine of a 7.5 day old chick embryo (20x)
- Mr. Kevin Smith
Direct surface view of CCD sensor (1000x)
- Mr. Wim van Egmond
Fish louse (Argulus) (60x)
- Miss Yanping Wang
Snowflake (4x)
- Dr. Torsten Wittmann
BPAE cells (60x)
Honorable Mentions
- Mr. Jose R. Almodovar
Head of an insect of the family Entiminae (4x)
- Mr. Jose R. Almodovar
Eye and head of a Fresh Water Shrimp (2x)
- Mr. Haris Antonopoulos
DVD-ROM front lens and movement coil (4x)
- Mr. Wolfgang Bettighofer
Desmid (Closterium lunula) (380x500μm)
- Mr. Wolfgang Bettighofer
Desmid (Micrasterias apiculata) (310x270μm)
- Dr. Jana Boerner
Adult Drosophila nervous system (40x)
- Mr. John Brackenbury
Pair of mosquito larvae in water droplet
- Mr. Massimo Brizzi
Female section worm (Ascaris) (150x)
- Dr. Jonatas Bussador do Amaral
3D cell culture of breast cancer cell
- Dr. G. Lorenzo Calzoni
Fucus male (40x)
- Dr. Irina Catrina
Fruit Fly sperm individualization (630x)
- Dr. Lynne Chang
Ptk1 cell stained for keratin and lamins (100x)
- Dr. Douglas Clark
Butterfly wing (Cethosia biblis) (20x)
- Mr. Constantijn Coccoris
Fossil (Actinoptychus heliopelta) (400x)
- Mr. Thomas Deerinck
A section of mouse kidney (60x)
- Mr. Carsten Dittmayer
Paraffin-block of pig-bone-marrow (100x)
- Mrs. Natalie Elia
Bridge connecting two daughter cells (63x)
- Mr. Jonathan Franks
Algae Biofilm from zebra fish tank (40x)
- Dr. Liang Gao
Views of a fixed anaphase LLC-PK1 cell (56x)
- Mr. Christian Gautier
Adhesive disc on Dysticus marginalis (20x)
- Mr. John Gaynes
3 day post fertilization zebrafish embryo (20x)
- Dr. Andrew Gillis
Pectoral fin of a whitespotted bamboo shark
- Dr. Viola F Gnocchi
Myofibers from a mouse extensor muscle (40x)
- Dr. Santiago Gomez
Oteons from bovine cortical bone (100x)
- Mr. Jesper Grønne
Natural formed large frost crystal (5x)
- Dr. Jerzy Gubernator
Mice flea specimen (20x)
- Dr. Marta Guervos
Anther of Silver Wattle tree (Acacia dealbata) (63x)
- Dr. John Hart
Crystallized mixture of Carbon Tetrabromide, Resorcinal, and Sulphur (25x)
- Mr. Philip Hens
Surface of silicon carbide single crystal (100x)
- Dr. Chris Henstridge
Mouse hippocampal organotypic slice
- Dr. Chris Henstridge
Mouse hippocampal organotypic slice
- Mr. Pekka Honkakoski
Column type of snowcrystal (26x)
- Dr. Michael R. Huebner & Dr. Zsolt Lazar
Chromosome (100x)
- Dr. Eric Hwang
Bovine pulmonary artery cells (60x)
- Dr. Ken Ishikawa
Cholesteric liquid crystals mixture of 5CB and chiral dopant fingerprint texture (10x)
- Dr. Juan Carlos Izpisua
Neurons grow over the astrocytesin, an embryo body (20x)
- Dr. Terue Kihara
Female with egg sacs (Clausidium sp.) (20x)
- Mr. Dong-Hwee Kim
Mouse embryonic fibroblast (60x)
- Mr. Charles Krebs
Water boatman (Corixa sp.) (40x)
- Mr. Edwin Lee
Henbit deadnettle (family Lamiaceae) (40x)
- Miss Debora Leite
Sugarcane root (20x)
- Mr. Harry Leung
Down feather (10x)
- Dr. David Linstead
Proboscis of blowfly (25x)
- Dr. Mariela Loschi
Stress granules in Cos7 cells (100x)
- Mr. Gabriel Luna
Retinal wholemount (40x)
- Dr. David Maitland
Velvet Mite (Eutrombidium rostratus) (10x)
- Dr. David Maitland
Male St.Mark's fly (Bibio marci) (10x)
- Dr. Robert Markus
Pollen granules (150x)
- Mr. David Millard
Fire agate, showing the iridescent iron oxide layer beneath the clear surface quartz (10x)
- Mr. David Millard
Red Admiral butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) egg (10x)
- Mr. Marek Mis
Filaments of Spirogyra (Desmid) (25x)
- Dr. Denise Montell
Whole fruit fly ovary (20x)
- Dr. Vidhya Munnamalai
Cochlear explant with its saccule attached was cultured for 4 days (20x)
- Dr. Carlos Alberto Muñoz
Alona (a crustacean) showing crystals and other mounting artifacts (100x)
- Dr. Stephen S. Nagy
Proboscis (720x)
- Mrs. Roberta Nowak
Section of embryonic skeletal muscle (200x)
- Dr. Rowan Orme
Primary rat neurons grown as neurospheres (10x)
- Dr. Gregor Overney
Slider of read-write head from a 20gb hard disk (31x)
- Dr. Ana Pasapera
Human osteosarcoma cells grown on glass coverslips coated with Fibronectin (60x)
- Mr. Walter Piorkowski
Anterior lateral and median eye of a jumping spider (16x)
- Mr. Donald Pottle
Human eye (conjunctivitis) (7000x)
- Dr. Maria Prado-Figueroa
Chalcedony (SiO2, microcrystalline silica) (63x)
- Dr. Michael M. Raith
Section of a leucite crystal with several sets of fine polsynthetic twins (40x)
- Ms. Poulomi Ray
Intestinal mucosa of a 7.5 day old chick embryo (60x)
- Dr. Glaucia Santelli
Oocytes of Rhynchosciara americana (20x)
- Dr. Havi Sarfaty
Mouth of a common fly (100x)
- Dr. Giorgio Seano
Zebrafish embryos (Dario rerio) (20x)
- Mr. Arik Shapira
Internal parts of the wild flower (100x)
- Mr. Michael Shribak & Dr. Irina Arkhipova
Bdelloid rotifer Philodina roseola from a laboratory culture (20x)
- Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
Architecture of the visual apparatus of jumping spider (Salticus scenicus) (20x)
- Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
Woodlouse (Armadillidium vulgare) (20x)
- Mr. Sebastian Sparenga
Sample of Anthracene (100x)
- Mr. Sinclair Stammers
Gastrointestinal nematode parasite of rats (Nippostrongylus brasiliensis) (560x)
- Dr. Willard Strong
Chrysalis (pupal stage) of a swallowtail butterfly (10x)
- Mr. Viktor Sykora
Pavonia gledhillii stamens (20x)
- Mr. Viktor Sykora
Hippocrepis multisiliquosa seed (10x)
- Dr. Anand Krishna Tiwari
Drosophila egg chamber (20x)
- Mr. Wim van Egmond
Eye of the giant waterflea (160x)
- Mr. Wim van Egmond
Young Volvox colony (250x)
- Mr. Marc Van Hove
Needle with yarn passing through (1x)
- Dr. Ralf Wagner
Daphnia playing with Volvox (50x) (1x)
- Mr. Ian Walker
Injected capillaries of cat's muscle fibres (35x)
- Dr. Robin Young
Gemma from the thalloid liverwort (20x)
- Mr. Tong Zhang
Xenopus tadpole (10x)
