The 2005 competition

Here you find the winning photographs of the 2005 "Images of Research" competition in the categories "Fascination of Research", "Faces of Research", the winner of the audience prize and the shortlist, a selection of the best photos submitted in 2005. To view a larger version of the photographs, please click on the picture in question.


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Jürgen Berger
Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie Tübingen

The scanning electron microscope image shows the leaf hair of the wild form of wall cress, which is frequently used as illustrative material by geneticists. In contrast to the wild form, the leaves of gene-mutated plants display significantly less branching in the hairs.

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