2012 Photomicrography Competition

Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress)

Dr. Heiti Paves

Affiliation
Tallinn University of Technology
Department of Gene Technology
Tallinn, Estonia
Technique
Confocal
Magnification
20x

Goniastrea sp., sometimes called brain coral showing the almost transparent tissue covering the hard skeleton “cups” of each polyp

James H. Nicholson Dr. Hanian Lang, Dr. Sylvia Galloway

Affiliation
Coral Culture and Collaborative Research Facility
MUSC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS
Department of Pathology & Lab Medicine
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Technique
Brightfield Macroscopy
Magnification
25x

Membranipora sp. (a bryozoan found on seaweed and kelp)

Dr. Bruno Pernet Dr. Russell Zimmer

Affiliation
California State University, Long Beach
Department of Biological Sciences
Long Beach, California, USA
Technique
Stereomicroscopy (image processing in Photoshop)
Magnification
20x

“The colony of animals was growing on kelp, and Dr. Russell Zimmer, a bryozoan expert, showed me how to section the seaweed so that one could turn a “strip” of the colony on its side in a drop of seawater and photograph it with the feeding tentacles (the lophophore) extended.” - Bruno Pernet