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

This photograph was awarded 2. place in the category "Fascination of Research".


Scientists have discovered a heretofore unknown mechanism: Neutrophil granulocytes, defensive cells of the human immune system, can cast a kind of network to capture bacteria and kill them outside of the cell. The red invaders, in this case Shigella bacteria, are trapped in the yellow nets.

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