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1st Place, 2009
Heiti Paves,
Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) anther (20X)- Affiliation
- Tallinn University of Technology
- Location
- Tallinn, Estonia
- Technique
- Confocal
Arabidopsis thaliana is the first plant to have its genome fully sequenced and is commonly used as a model in scientific research. But it was the unusually artistic appearance of the winning shot that inspired photomicrographer and plant biologist Dr. Heiti Paves of the Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia to enter the image into the 35-year-old competition.
Dr. Paves has studied chicken embryo development, embryonic neurons and plants, all under a microscope. His first-place image, using confocal microscopy to document the anther of a tiny thale cress plant, was a byproduct of his research on motor proteins that move organelles in plant cells.
According to Dr. Paves, besides being “nice-looking plant organs,” anthers were a good subject because “they do not move very fast… The picture of my dreams should bring out motility of living cell, like a sports photograph.”
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