Winners of CIB's Small World Photo Contest Announced

Who knew mildew, fungi and bacteria could be so beautiful?

The results are in for the first Small World Photomicrography Competition of USU’s Center for Integrated BioSystems. The center invited campus-wide participation of photomicrography enthusiasts, who submitted an array of striking and visually fascinating entries.

 

First place went to Conrad Evans, USU Extension plant pathologist and assistant professor in the Biology Department, with his entry, Powdery mildew cleistothecium and asci with spores.

 

Evans’ winning entry was submitted to the international 2006 Nikon Small World Contest and he received a $200 credit at CIB Service Labs.

Ellen Klinger capture second place with her entry, Fungal invaders. Klinger is a biological science technician in the USDA Bee Biology and Systemics Laboratory at Utah State.

 

Third place was awarded to Usha Spaulding, a student in Associate Professor Carol von Dohlen’s lab, in USU’s Biology Department. Her submission, produced with a laser-scanning confocal microscope, was Rod-shaped bacteria in the hemocoel of A.tsugae.

 

Klinger was awarded a $100 credit at CIB Service Labs, while Spaulding received a $50 credit.