Institute Photography Competition

View from the blue oceanographic vessel Gaia, which incredibly stable leads to work and protects you from the force of the sea
Photo taken in South Georgia, in a colony of king penguins, during the scientific expedition Mission Microbiome

Zooplankton netting during the BIOTREC 2024 campaign aboard the CNR GaiaBlu vessel.
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) living in the San Juan Islands (USA), Pacific Ocean. Left: mother (J16), right: calf (J26). Population observed to study swimming energetics and group geometry (Spina et al. BES 2024).
This photo shows iron transport in neurons via transferrin. Iron is necessary for many cellular processes, and transferrin binds two iron atoms and transports them into the cell. Green: transferrin receptor; Blue: nuclei; Magenta: microtubules.
Shell beach during sampling in the Cuonian Lagoon in Lithuania, during the RESTORE4Cs – 2024 project.
Photo from the Curiosity portable microscope. The photo shows a close-up of a male copepod from the calanoid family. The copepod was caught with a zooplankton net in the Baltic Sea during the TREC (Traversing European Coastlines) scientific expedition.
SEM images of polyvinylidene fluoride micro-nanofibers enriched with copper nanoparticles (average size around 80nm).
Pyramidal neurons in the mouse visual cortex expressing a genetically encoded sensor for measuring chloride ions.
Pyramidal neurons in the mouse cortex. Green: Pten knockout neurons. Red: wild-type neurons.