Science in Action - First Place
Photographer - Em Lim
It's always important to bring a hat while doing field work. If you happen to forget yours, a sea cucumber will do the trick too!

Science in Action - Second Place
Photographer - David Hik
Counting plants on the tundra requires a combination of high tech and low tech approaches. (Ruby Range, Yukon)

Science in Action - Third Place
Photographer - Crystal McRae
To better understand the responses of corals to heat stress we conduct controlled experiments at the National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium in southern Taiwan; this is an image of me collecting corals off the reef for an experiment aimed at assessing potential variability in thermal tolerance across reef sites with different thermal regimes.

Study Subject - First Place
Photographer - Andreas Fischer
A subadult female black widow /Latrodectus hesperus/ on her web. This photo is a photostack of 66 layers of a live animal.

Study Subject - Second Place
Photographer - Rolf Mathewes
Springtime Garry Oak meadow, Vancouver Island. Taken during research on postglacial development and fire history of oak forests.

Study Subject - Third Place
Photographer - David Hik
Sheep grazing has a huge impact on highland plant communities in Iceland. Sheep are not hard to find, especially during the annual fall réttir, or roundup. (Iceland)

Life Under the Lens - First Place
Photographer - Aaron Dhanda
This image depicts an Andy Warhol inspired montage of a HeLa cell infected with pathogenic Listeria monocytogenes bacteria. The single cell that is displayed (as a montage) is heavily infected with bacteria that are actively rocketing around the host cell cytoplasm. The sample was phalloidin (multi color) to label the host actin filaments and bacterial comet tails as well as DAPI (multi color) to label the large central nucleus and bacterial DNA (small ovals).

Life Under the Lens - Second Place
Photographer - Abigail Feresten
This image is of C. elegans mutants, with fluorescent markers labeling different cell types. I study the effects of early axon guidance mistakes on the development of later axons. The first axon to extend is green, and it is supposed to go in a straight line without branching. Red and blue axons use the green axon to find their way. In this image we see the green axon making a variety of mistakes in its path finding. The bright spots are lysosomes, which fluoresce in all spectra.

Life Under the Lens - Third Place
Photographer - Rolf Mathewes
Navicula diatoms from a sediment study of past earthquake history at Serpentine Fen, Surrey.

Wild Card - First Place
Photographer - James Pickett
I completed a USRA and a BISC 498 project in the Gries lab where I worked on bumblebees. As a result I was able to get this macro picture of a queen specimen.

Wild Card - Second Place
Photographer - Zamir Punja
Cannabis flowers (buds) produce stalked glandular trichomes which contain the active ingredients known for their psychoactive effects (THC). The mature glandular heads are shown in all their glory at the end of the trichome stalks formed on a flower bract.

Wild Card - Third Place
Photographer - Ashley Jukich
A brain tissue organoid (from Lisa Julian's lab), made from 3-dimensional cultures of human pluripotent stem cells. Blue = stem cells (surrounding developing brain ventricles); Green = newly formed neurons.