This document summarizes the winners and honorable mentions of the 2017 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition. Dr. Bram van den Broek from the Netherlands Cancer Institute won first place for an image of fluorescently tagged keratin in human skin cells. Second place went to Dr. Havi Sarfaty from Israel for an image of a flowering plant seed head, and third place went to Jean-Marc Babalian from France for an image of algae releasing daughter colonies. The document lists the remaining top 20 winners and several honorable mentions.

1. 1st place: Dr. Bram van
den Broek, Andriy Volkov,
Dr. Kees Jalink, Dr. Nicole
Schwarz & Dr. Reinhard
Windoffer, The
Netherlands Cancer
Institute, BioImaging
Facility & Department of
Cell Biology, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
Immortalised human skin
cells (HaCaT keratinocytes)
expressing fluorescently
tagged keratin. Confocal.
40x (objective lens
magnification)

2. Nikon Small World Competition 2017

3. 2nd Place: Dr. Havi Sarfaty, Eyecare Clinic, Yahud-Monoson, Israel. Senecio vulgaris (a flowering plant) seed head. Stereomicroscopy. 2x

4. 3rd Place: Jean-
Marc Babalian,
Nantes, France.
Living Volvox
algae releasing its
daughter
colonies.
Differential
Interference
Contrast. 100x

5. 4th Place: Teresa
Zgoda, Rochester
Institute of
Technology,
Rochester, New York,
USA. Taenia solium
(tapeworm) everted
scolex. 200x

6. 5th Place: Dean Lerman, Netanya, Israel. Mould on a tomato. Reflected Light, Focus Stacking. 3.9x

7. 6th Place: Dr. David A.
Johnston, University of
Southampton/University
Hospital Southampton,
Biomedical Imaging Unit,
Southampton, United
Kingdom. Lily pollen.
Confocal. 63x (objective
lens magnification)

8. 7th Place: Dr. Ryo Egawa,
Nagoya University,
Graduate School of
Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Individually labeled axons
in an embryonic chick
ciliary ganglion.
Differential Interference
Contrast. Confocal, Tissue
Clearing, Brainbow
(labelling technique). 30x
(objective lens
magnification)

9. 8th Place: Dr. Michael
Perny, University of
Bern, Institute for
Infectious Diseases,
Bern, Switzerland.
Newborn rat cochlea
with sensory hair cells
(green) and spiral
ganglion neurons (red).
Confocal. 100x

10. 9th Place: Catarina Moura,
Dr. Sumeet Mahajan, Dr.
Richard Oreffo & Dr. Rahul
Tare, University of
Southampton, Institute for
Life Sciences, Southampton,
United Kingdom. Growing
cartilage-like tissue in the lab
using bone stem cells
(collagen fibres in green and
fat deposits in red). Second
Harmonic Generation (SHG)
and Coherent Anti-Stokes
Raman Scattering (CARS).
20x for collagen; 40x for fat
deposits

11. 10th Place: Dr. Csaba Pintér,
University of Pannonia,
Georgikon Faculty, Department
of Plant Protection, Keszthely,
Hungary. Phyllobius roboretanus
(weevil). Stereomicroscopy. 80x

12. 11th Place: Steven Simon, Simon Photography, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA. Plastic fracturing on credit card hologram. 10x (objective lens
magnification)

13. 12th Place: Charles Krebs, Charles Krebs Photography, Issaquah, Washington, USA. Opiliones (daddy longlegs) eye. Reflected Light, Image
Stacking. 20x (objective lens magnification)

14. 13th Place: Levon Biss, Levon Biss Photography Ltd, Ramsbury, United Kingdom. Exaerete frontalis (orchid cuckoo bee) from the collections of
the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Reflected Light. 10x (objective lens magnification)

15. 14th Place: David Millard, Austin, Texas, USA. Common
Mestra butterfly (Mestra amymone) eggs, laid on a leaf of
Tragia sp. (Noseburn plant). Incident Illumination, Image
Stacking. 7.5x (objective lens magnification)

16. 15th Place: Dr. Rick Adams, University
of Northern Colorado, Department of
Biological Sciences, Greeley, Colorado,
USA. 3rd trimester fetus of
Megachiroptera (fruit bat). Darkfield,
Stereomicroscopy. 18x

17. 16th Place: Marek Miś, Marek Miś Photography, Suwalki, Poland. Parus major (titmouse) down feather. Polarized Light, Darkfield. 25x

18. 17th Place: Harald K. Andersen, Steinberg, Norway. Dyed human hair. Darkfield. 40x

19. 18th Place: Christian Gautier, Biosphoto, Le Mans, France. Synapta (sea-cucumber) skin. Polarised Light. 100x

20. 19th Place: Dr. Dylan Burnette, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Nashville, Tennessee,
USA. Embryonic body wall from a developing Mus musculus (mouse). 100x (objective lens magnification)

21. 20th Place: Tracy Scott,
Ithaca, New York, USA.
Aspergillus flavus
(fungus) and yeast
colony from soil.
Transmitted Light. 40x

22. Honorable Mentions

23. Dr.Robert Markus. Traxacum officinale (dandelion) cross section showing curved stigma with pollen. Magnification 25x

24. Benjamin Barti. Dye-injected hippocampal interneuron in mouse brain section. Magnification 20x

25. Emre Can Alagöz. Jumping spider. Magnification 6x

26. Alwin de Jong,Dr. G.J Kremers & Dr.R.L. De Swart. Ciliated respiratory epithelial cells (yellow) and mucus producing goblet cells (cyan), containing
tight junctions (red) and nuclei (blue). Magnification 68x

27. Dr.Regis Grailhe,Nasia
Antoniu & Dr.Rebecca
Matsas. Neurons derived
from a Parkinson patient .
Magnification 20x

28. Dr.Nathan Myhrvold. Broccoli. Magnification 4.9x

29. Frank Reiser. Human tongue blood vessels injected with lead chromate. Magnification 100x

30. Dr.Keunyoung Kim. Ganglion cells
expressing fluorescent proteins in
a mouse retina. Magnification 40x

31. Marc Van Hove. Warp knitted curtain fabric. Magnification 10x (objective lens magnification)

32. Michael Tuchband. Liquid crystal, Magnification 500x

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