Image Of Distinction - Xinpei Zhang
"Alaskan sand."
Yu Cheng, Ya'an, China
Image Of Distinction - Dr. Eugenijus Kavaliauskas
"Ant (Camponotus)."
Tauragė, Lithuania
5th Place - Alison Pollack
"Slime mold (Lamproderma)."
San Anselmo, California, USA
Image Of Distinction - Yuan Ji
"Butterfly scales."
World Expo Museum
Shanghai, China
Image Of Distinction - Anne-Françoise Tasnier
"Wood cells."
Royal Museum for Central Africa
Department of Wood Biology
Tervuren, Belgium
Honorable Mention - Sebastian Sparenga
"Recrystallized Vitamin C."
McCrone Research Institute
Chicago, Illinois, USA
10th Place - Murat Öztürk
"A fly under the chin of a tiger beetle."
Ankara, Turkey
Image Of Distinction - Adolfo Ruiz De Segovia
"Drops of olive oil in water."
Particular
Madrid, Spain
6th Place - Ole Bielfeldt
"Unburned particles of carbon released when the hydrocarbon chain of candle wax breaks down."
Macrofying
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Image Of Distinction - Dr. Stephen S. Nagy
"Diatoms arranged in an exhibition rosette by Klaus D. Kemp."
Montana Diatoms
Helena, Montana, USA
8th Place - Dr. Nathanaël Prunet
"Growing tip of a red algae."
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USADepartment of Biology
Honorable Mention - Ye Fei Zhang
"Butterfly egg."
Jiang Yin, Jiangsu, China
1st Place - Grigorii Timin, Dr. Michel Milinkovitch
"Embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko (Phelsuma grandis)."
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Department of Genetics and Evolution
11th Place - Ye Fei Zhang
"Moth eggs."
Jiang Yin, Jiangsu, China
Honorable Mention - Dr. Laurent Formery
"Two-month old juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata)."
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Image Of Distinction - Dr. Marko Pende
"Transgenic axolotl (CNP:GFP;β3Tubulin:mCherry) showing components of the nervous system. CNP+ Schwann cells (cyan) and axons (magenta)."
MDI Biological Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
Image Of Distinction - Dr. Andrew Posselt
"Bold jumping spider (Phidippus audax)."
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Department of Surgery
Mill Valley, California, USA
Image Of Distinction - Karl Deckart
"Dental drill bit studded with diamond chips."
Eckental, Bavaria, Germany
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