The 2006 competition

Here you find the winning photographs of the 2006 "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 2006. To view a larger version of the photographs, please click on the picture in question.


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Dr. Volker Brinkmann, Biologe

A tiny protozoan parasite, the so-called plasmodium, is responsible for the tropical disease malaria. The photograph shows what happens to the red blood cells in the body of a mosquito after it sucked blood from its infected victim: Just minutes after the bite, the malaria parasites break free from the red blood cells to multiply.

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