Microbiology Photography Competition

The 15 best entries from the Microbiology Photography Competition 2011

Rank		Image		Description		Microbiologist
1.				Aggressive infection on red blood cell in humans		Arsalan Daudi
2.				Microcolony with a toroidal structure, of the pathogen Aeromonas hydrophila in the wall of a well, in a 96 well plate.		Jose Ramos Vivas
3.				Chromatium okenii with intracellular sulfur droplets. Cell length is approximately 10 micrometer.		Helmut Brandl
4.				Rhodococcus equi (intracellular bacterium in red-orange) infection in human epithelial cells undergoing mitosis. DNA stained with DAPI and cellular actin in green.		Jose Ramos Vivas
5.				Fusarium golden eye		Ela Suchowilska
6.				Scanning microscopy picture of Bifidobacterium		Bao Qiuhua
7.				HEp-2 cells infected by adenovirus (green		Wieslaw Truszkiewicz
8.				MDCK cells infected with influenza H1N1/v		Wieslaw Truszkiewicz
8.				Scanning microscopy picture of Streptococcus thermophilus		Bao Qiuhua
8.				Scanning microscopy picture of Streptococcus thermophilus		Bao Qiuhua
8.				Mould contamination		Charmaine Mitchell
9.				Microbial diversity in an air sample		Helmut Brandl
9.				several Enterobius vermicularis on a fresh preparation		Karina De Sousa
9.				Rhodotorula species a common environmental yeast which can be found in air, soil and water		Charmaine Mitchell
10.				Fungi – it’s a like a jungle out there!		Karina De Sousa
10.				The bacterium was find in the yoghurt.The cell wall color was abnormal after Gram-staining, it's not purple or red,but transparent.		Luo Jinfeng
11.				The bacterium was find in the yoghurt.The cell wall color was abnormal after Gram-staining, it's not purple or red,but transparent.		Luo Jinfeng
12.				Pure isolate of Thiobacillus denitrificans isolated from sulphide waste of copper mines in minimal salt medium,capable of metal oxidation, and redox-transformations in complex solid-liquid-gas system for generation of valuable products.Our application in the area of applying this organism for conversion of smelter gases of nonferrous industries into bioenergy/biohydrogen		Abhilash Pillai
12.				TEM visulazation of human enterovirus 71		Jianhao Cao
13.				E.COLI, SEM-picture 16'000 x Magnification		Alberto Foglia
13.				Cross contamination Poultry		Ben Wit
14.				This is a memento that I created for the three senior year honour thesis students whom I mentored over the past semester. The initials of their name were written onto the agar plate by using bacteria cells from an overnight culture as an “ink”. The bacterium that is used here is Chromobacterium violaceum wild type strain (ATCC 12472). The cells were inoculated onto the LB medium agar via gently writing the bacteria cells onto the agar surface using an inoculation loop. The inoculated agar plates were incubated at 30 degree Celsius for 24 hours. This is my first attempt at bacterial calligraphy and luckily the bacteria cells cooperated by growing on the regions that I have written on.		Ng Wenfa
15.				Enriched Differential Medium Transformation by Pure Isolate of Iron Reducing Bacteria .This is isolated from iron precipitates in the old stope of copper mines in a enriched vitamin and mineral elixir medium with trace salts. Mostly iron-reducing bacteria are termed to be anaerobic due to presence of reducing conditions;But we could isolate and report this as the first aerobic iron reducing bacteria, which shall be capable to transform various iron bearing solid and liquid secondaries into valuable by products and nanomaterials. The Picture submitted shows the transformation of base salts and vitamin elixir in presence of thioglycolate to change to color of medium from indigo to pink.		Abhilash Pillai
15.				dead and life cell of Thalassiosira sp.: alga staining, Blue (dead cell) brown (life cell)		Aa Haeruman Azam