An autofluorescent plant vascular bundle imaged on a Zeiss 510 Meta in 2 channels
(Graham Wright)

  Scanning electron micrograph of an Arabidopsis pollen grain
(Annabelle Chen Siyun)
 

Section of a Drosophila ovary (germarium)
(Daniel Kirilly)

Honourable mention in Nikon's Small World Competition

     
   

Scanning electron micrograph of a cotton anther and pollen
(Annabelle Chen Siyun)

 

Mutant follicle cells (green) expanding on the surface of fruit fly egg chamber
(Daniel Kirilly)

Third prize in Olympus' Bioscapes competition

  Transmission electron micrograph of an endosperm cell of Jatropha curcin
(Ouyang Xuezhi)
     
   
Invitorgen Molecular Probes' Fluocells slide #1 imaged on a Zeiss Exciter in 3 channels - DAPI, Alexa Fluor 488 phalloidin and Mitotracker Red CMXRos
(Graham Wright)
  Transmission electron micrograph of chloroplasts in a barley mesophyll cell
(Ouyang Xuezhi)
  "Making two organelles from one: Woronin body biogenesis by peroxisomal protein sorting" Fangfang Liu et al. (2008) Journal of Cell Biology, 180: 325-339 (Greg Jedd's lab)
     
   
An autofluorescent transverse section of Convallaria sp. imaged on a Zeiss Exciter in 2 channels
(Graham Wright)
  Scanning electron micrograph of an Arabidopsis meristem
(Annabelle Chen Siyun)
  An autofluorescent plant vascular bundle imaged on a Leica SP5 in 3 channels then rendered in Imaris
(Graham Wright)
     
   
A border cell cluster in a Drosophila egg chamber. F-actin (red), DNA (blue) and Moesin-GFP in one cell of the cluster (green). Captured using the Leica SP5. De-convolved using Autoquant and 3D rendered in Imaris.
(Adam Cliffe)
 

A zebrafish brain (3-5 day old fish), triple labelled for nuclei (blue), acetylated tubulin (axons, green), and EphB receptors (red). The image also featured in an exhibit entitled "Neuroscapes: An Exhibit in Honor of Santiago Ramon y Cajal" and in a related book.
(Michael Hendricks)

  Peripheral neurons (blue and green) and the nuclear ecdysone receptor (red) in a Drosophila larva.
(Daniel Kirilly)
     
   
A DIC image of a freshly harvested human cheek cell (Graham's). Image acquired using a Zeiss LSM 5 Exciter, 40x 1.3 NA objective.
(Graham Wright)
  A confocal image of a root tip of Arabidopsis thaliana with a chromatin GFP marker (green) and propidium iodide counterstaining (red). Image acquired using the Zeiss 510 META, inverted.
(Mathieu Ingouff)
  An autofluorescent transverse section of Convallaria sp. imaged on a Zeiss LSM 510 in 2 channels. This composite of 12 images was captured using the motorized stage then receonstructed using ImageJ's MosaicJ plugin
(Graham Wright)
     
     

The Drosophila embryonic muscles (red) with the Rolling pebbles protein (green) localized along the surface of muscles where they adhere to one another. Images were acquired using the Zeiss Meta 510 upright confocal.
(Sree Devi Menon)

 

  An Arabidopsis thaliana root tip was stained with FM4-64, imaged in xy and z on a Zeiss LSM 510, then 3D and iso-surface rendered using Imaris.
(Graham Wright)

This gallery will develop from the best images captured at TLL. If you have an image you would like to feature, please submit it to either Graham or Cristiana - you could be in with a chance of winning the 'Image of the Month' competition.

You are welcome to use these images for non-commercial purposes as long as credit is given to the person(s) who captured the image.

 

Here are some other good microscopy image galleries:

Nikon MicroscopyU Digital Image Galleries

Olympus Image Gallery

Biomed Central - Biology Image Library

Wellcome Image Awards 2008 Gallery

Microscopy-UK Microscopy Gallery

Materials Research Society - Science as Art images

     
 

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