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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Dr. Volker Brinkmann
Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Berlin

The red-dyed gonococci (the cause of gonorrhea) infesting e.g. the mucous membrane of the cervix are only one-thousandth of a millimeter in size. The cells of the mucous membrane fail to fend off the bacteria, which represents the start of an infection.

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