2016 Nikon Macro Photo Contest Winners

1st - Four-day-old zebrafish embryo (10x)

Dr. Oscar Ruiz
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

2nd - Polished slab of Teepee Canyon agate (90x)

Douglas L. Moore
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
Museum of Natural History

3rd - Brain cells from skin cells

Specifically, this is a culture of neurons (stained green) derived from human skin cells, and Schwann cells, a second type of brain cell (stained red), which have started to cover the neuron in the same way these cells interact in the brain. (20x)Rebecca Nutbrown
University of Oxford
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

4th - Butterfly proboscis (6.3x)

Jochen Schroeder
Chiang Mai, Thailand

5th - Front foot (tarsus) of a male diving beetle (100x)

Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Janelia Research Campus

6th - Air bubbles formed from melted ascorbic acid (vitamin C) crystals (50x)

Marek Miś
Marek Mis Photography
Suwalki, Podlaskie, Poland

7th - Leaves of Selaginella (lesser club moss) (40x)

Dr. David Maitland
Feltwell, Norfolk, United Kingdom

8th - Wildflower stamens (40x)

Samuel Silberman
Monoson Yahud, Israel

9th - Espresso coffee crystals

Vin Kitayama & Sanae Kitayama
Vinsanchi Art Museum Azumino
Azumino, Japan

10th - Frontonia (showing ingested food, cilia, mouth and trichocysts) (200x)

Rogelio Moreno Gill
Panama, Panama

11th - Scales of a butterfly wing underside (Vanessa atalanta) (10x)

Francis Sneyers
Brecht, Belgium

12th - Human HeLa cell undergoing cell division (cytokinesis). DNA (yellow), myosin II (blue) and actin filaments (red) (60x)

Dr. Dylan Burnette
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, Tennessee, USA

13th - Poison fangs of a centipede (Lithobius erythrocephalus) (16x)

Walter Piorkowski
South Beloit, Illinois, USA

14th - Mouse retinal ganglion cells (40x)

Dr. Keunyoung Kim
University of California, San Diego
National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR)
La Jolla, California, USA

15th - Head section of an orange ladybird (Halyzia sedecimguttata) (10x)

Geir Drange
Asker, Norway

16th - 65 fossil Radiolarians (zooplankton) carefully arranged by hand in Victorian style (100x)

Stefano Barone
Diatom Shop
Palazzo Pignano, Italy

17th - Slime mold (Mixomicete) (5x)

José R. Almodóvar
University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Mayaguez Campus
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, USA

18th - Parts of wing-cover (elytron), abdominal segments and hind leg of a broad-shouldered leaf beetle (Oreina cacaliae) (40x)

Pia Scanlon
Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia
South Perth, Western Australia, Australia

19th - Human neural rosette primordial brain cells, differentiated from embryonic stem cells in the culture dish

Dr. Gist F. Croft, Lauren Pietilla, Stephanie Tse, Dr. Szilvia Galgoczi, Maria Fenner & Dr. Ali H. Brivanlou
The Rockefeller University
New York City, New York, USA

20th - Cow dung (30x)

Michael Crutchley
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom