This year's international competition, entitled "Small World In Motion," received more than 2,000 entries from 88 countries. It encompasses any movie or digital time-lapse photography taken with the help of the light microscope.
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Immortalized human skin cells expressing fluorescently tagged keratin (40x magnification), presented by Dr. Bram van den Broek, Andriy Volkov, Dr. Kees Jalink, Dr. Reinhard Windoffer & Dr. Nicole Schwarz from The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam. 1st place in Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition.
A flowering plant) seed head (2x magnification) captured by Dr. Havi Sarfaty of Eyecare Clinic in Yahud-Monoson, Israel. 2nd place in Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition.
Living Volvox algae releasing its daughter colonies (100x magnification) captured by Jean-Marc Babalian from Nantes, France. 3rd place in Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition.
Tapeworm everted scolex (200x magnification) captured by Teresa Zgoda of Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, US. 4th place in Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition.
Mold on a tomato (3.9x magnification) captured by Dean Lerman from Netanya, Israel. 5th place in Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition.
Individually labeled axons in an embryonic chick ciliary ganglion (30x magnification) captured by Dr. Ryo Egawa of Nagoya University, Japan. 7th place in Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition.
Newborn rat cochlea with sensory hair cells (green) and spiral ganglion neurons (red) (100x magnification) Dr. Michael Perny from University of Bern, Switzerland. 8th place in Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition.
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Growing cartilage-like tissue in the lab using bone stem cells (collagen fibers in green and fat deposits in red) (20x magnification for collagen; 40x for fat deposits) presented by Catarina Moura, Dr. Sumeet Mahajan, Dr. Richard Oreffo & Dr. Rahul Tare of University of Southampton, United Kingdom. 9th place in Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition.
Weevil (80x magnification) captured by Dr. Csaba Pintér from University of Pannonia, Keszthely, Hungary. 10th place in Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition.
Titmouse down feather (25x magnification) captured by Marek Miś from Suwalki, Podlaskie, Poland. 16th place in Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition.
Jumping spider (6x magnification) captured by Emre Can Alagöz of Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey. Honorable Mention in Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition.
Early stage development of an ornamental flower (5x magnification) captured by Masoumeh Sahar Khodaverdi from University of Tabriz, Syracuse, New York, US. The winner of Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition in the Image of Distinction category.
Rubber fly eye section (20x magnification) captured by Yousef Al Habshi from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The winner of Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition in the Image of Distinction category.
Minerals Nsutite and Cacoxenite (5x magnification) captured by Emilio Carabajal Márquez from Madrid, Spain. The winner of Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition in the Image of Distinction category.
Migrasome of a mouse fibroblast cell (780x magnification) captured by Dr. Liang Ma & Dr. Li Yu of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The winner of Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition in the Image of Distinction category.
Tropical weevil (10x magnification) captured by Dr. Marcel Clemens of Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova in Verona, Italy. The winner of Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition in the Image of Distinction category.
Pine needle cross section (10x magnification) captured by Alexander Klepnev of JSC Radiophysics in Moscow, Russia. The winner of Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition in the Image of Distinction category.
Rotifers (20x magnification) captured by Frank Fox from Konz, Germany. The winner of Nikon’s 2017 Photomicrography Competition in the Image of Distinction category.
