2020 Microscopy Today Micrograph Awards
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Prize. Damselfly larva (nymph) during the hunt showing the operation of a special organ, called a mask, used for capturing and eating prey (ceriodaphnia).
For this video the larva was placed on glass, and the ceriodaphnia was added prior to imaging by dark-field light microscopy. Image by Andrei Savitsky, independent microscopist, Cherkasy, Ukraine. Video 3rd
Prize. Video shows a ciliate (Nassula sp.) dying. If local conditions become unfavorable (for example, too dry, high osmotic pressure, bad chemicals in
water), the single-cell ciliate stops moving around, and the cell eventually bursts and expels everything it has eaten as well as its own organelles. Bright-field light microscopy. Image by Julia Van Etten, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
both inherent sharpness and sufficient pixel density to be pre- sented in an 11” × 14” format suitable for hanging in an exhibi- tion. Oſten image sharpness can be maintained by acquiring the micrograph at a lower magnification than might be required for research purposes. Acquisition at high pixel density is now available to most microscopists since the cost of suitable
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cameras has decreased dramatically over the last decade. An excellent micrograph with only a modest pixel density is not necessarily eliminated from the competition, but justification may be required to allow the image to be competitive. So, what makes a winning micrograph? Microscopes reveal interesting features and patterns in objects that are not
People’s Choice Award. Aloe vera leaf imaged with a halogen lamp exciting fluorescence of internal aspects, especially chlorophyll that fluoresces in red. Leaf was cut with a knife to a thickness of 5 mm and imaged directly. Z-stack acquisition of 51 slides in a wide-field fluorescence microscope. Image by Jose Martinez- Lopez, Química Tech Microscopy and Microanalysis, Juarez, Mexico.
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