Bioscapes Museum Tour
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Live green brain coral (Goniastrea sp.), under water. One full polyp in the center is shown with four surrounding polyps. Walled corallites are purple. All color is the natural autofluorescence of the coral with the exception of the purple, which is near-violet LED illumination to highlight neartransparent tissue.
James Nicholson, NOAA/NOS/NCCOS, Center for Coastal Environmental Health & Biomolecular Research, Fort Johnson Marine Lab, Charleston, SC, USA.
Fifth Prize, 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.
Stink bug eggs. Stink bugs are agricultural pests that exist throughout the world. When disturbed, they emit a characteristic foul-smelling odor. Brightfield illumination.
Haris Antonopoulos, Athens, Greece.
Sixth Prize, 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.
Green alga Penium margaritaceum. The cell wall is green and the chloroplast is represented by autofluorescence. Confocal microscopy.
David Domozych, Department of Biology, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA.
Honorable Mention, 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.
Stem section of Fragesia sp., garden bamboo, showing a vascular bundle. Fluorescence.
Gerd Guenther, Duesseldorf, Germany.
Honorable Mention, 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.
Young sporangia of slime mold Arcyria stipata. Fluorescence.
Dalibor Matýsek, Mining University - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Honorable Mention, 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.
Water lily Nymphae alba showing idioblast on transverse section of stem. Polarized light.
Steve Lowry, Portstewart, Co. Londonderry, UK.
Honorable Mention, 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.
Flower bud. Primordium (bud) of the weedy flower Tribulus sp. at its final stages of development. More than 100 images were captured at various depths using epi-illumination: these images were composed to create the final image.
M. Reza Dadpour, University of Tabriz, Department of Horticultural Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Fifth Prize, 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®
Beetle leg Lateral view of the adhesive pad on the front leg of a beetle (Clytus sp.), captured using autofluorescence.
Jan Michels, Department of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Institute of Zoology, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany.
Eighth Prize, 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®
Wildflower seeds. The image was captured using brightfield reflected light.
Yanping Wang, Beijing, China
Ninth Prize, 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®
G-actin from chicken muscle. G-actin is a protein involved in muscle contraction. It forms loose bundles that self-organize into regular patterns. The image was captured using total internal reflectance fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy.
Dennis Breitsprecher, Hanover Medical School, Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover, Germany
Honorable Mention, 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®
Solitary coral, Fungia sp. The coral's tentacle tips, called acrospheres, are visibly enhanced using a technique developed for doing epfluorescence imaging without a barrier filter.
James Nicholson, Coral Culture & Collaborative Research Facility, NOAA NOS NCCOS Center for Coastal Environmental Health & Biomolecular Research, Fort Johnson Marine Lab, Charleston, SC, USA.
Third Prize, 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®
Cyanobacteria growing on rice plant roots.
Changbin Chen, University of Minnesota Department of Horticultural Science, St. Paul, MN, USA and Sumaira Mazhar, Department of Microbiology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
Honorable Mention, 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®
Unicellular alga Penium, treated with the microtubule poison oryzalin.
David Domozych, Department of Biology, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA.
Fifth Prize, 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®
Sensory axons (long, slender nerve fibers) covering the tail of a 3-day-old larval zebrafish. 'Brainbow' image using confocal microscopy. In the Brainbow technique, cells randomly choose combinations of red, yellow and cyan fluorescent proteins, so that they each glow a particular color. This provides a way to distinguish neighboring cells of the nervous system and follow their pathways.
Albert Pan, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Seventh Prize, 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®
Blood and lymphatic vasculature in mouse colon. Confocal microscopy.
Andrea Doni, Rozzano, Italy.
Honorable Mention, 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®
Microglia and cerebral blood vessels in living, anesthetized transgenic mouse. Multiphoton microscopy.
Karl Kasischke and Harris A. Gelbard, University of Rochester Medical Center, Center for Neural Development and Disease, Rochester, NY, USA.
Honorable Mention, 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.
Moth, Captured at 20x.
Charles Krebs, Issaquah, WA, USA.
Honorable Mention, 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.
Part of the essence of the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition® is to bring a taste of the incredible stories emerging in today's research laboratories to the public. Exhibitions including selected images from each year's Olympus BioScapes competition travel the United States and Canada throughout the year, displaying at museums, academic libraries and research institutions. These exhibitions, open to the public, explain the competition in more detail and show some of the most extraordinary life science images in the world - images that lend inspiration to the scientists of tomorrow, and help us see the beauty, information and connections existing in all aspects of life science.
Tour Schedules
April 1, 2011 - May 30, 2012: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (National Museum of Natural History), Santiago, Chile (Retrospective Tour)
March 1, 2012 – May 31, 2012: Da Vinci Science Center, Allentown, PA (2011 Tour)
May 1, 2012- July 31, 2012: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD (2010 Tour)
May 1, 2012 - July 31, 2012 - Marine Biology Lab, Woods Hole, MA (2009 Tour)
June 1, 2012 – August 31, 2012: NY Hall of Science- Queens, NY (2011 Tour)
August 1, 2012 - October 31, 2012: Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD (2010 Tour)
September 1, 2012 – November 30, 2012: Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA 20 (2011 tour)
December 1, 2012 – February 28, 2013: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (2012 Tour)
November 1, 2012- January 31, 2013: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (2010 tour)
December 1, 2012- February 28, 2013: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD (2011 Tour)
February 1, 2013- April 31, 2013: Brown University, Providence, RI (2010 Tour)
May 1, 2013- July 31, 2013: Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD (2012 Tour)
June 1, 2013 – August 31, 2013: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (2011 tour)
August 1, 2013- October 31, 2013: NY Hall of Science- Queens, NY (2012 Tour)
December 1, 2013 – February 28, 2014: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (2013 Tour)
November 1, 2013- January 31, 2014: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (2012 tour)
February 1, 2014- April 31, 2014: Da Vinci Science Center, Allentown, PA (2012 Tour)
May 1, 2014- July 31, 2014: Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA 20 (2012 tour)
June 1, 2014 – August 31, 2014: NY Hall of Science- Queens, NY (2013 Tour)
August 1, 2014- October 31, 2014: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD (2012 Tour)
September 1, 2014 – November 30, 2014: Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD (2013 Tour)
December 1, 2014 – February 28, 2015: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (2014 Tour)
December 1, 2013 – February 28, 2014: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (2013 tour)
