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Below you will find all the pictures that take part in the Picture Award competition: |
CATEGORY 1 - THESIS COVER |
1 | Seyedeh Masoumeh Fotoukkiaii |
Mutations confer resistance to acaricides in the two-spotted spider mites. In this picture, the genetic ability is depicted as a ladder that still makes the acaricide sprayed plants reachable to the mites. |
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2 | Zhilei Gao |
Protists are versatile microorganisms in soil and display a broad range of functional roles. The best-known role of soil protists is bacteria feeders. It remains unknown to what extent protist predation can be predicted. I, therefore, propose that a trait-based approach offers new insights into protist ecology and the impacts of preferential feeding. My thesis cover shows the story of my PhD work, each puzzle piece represents a protist trait, my work is to match protist traits to their functions. To fully appreciate the consequences of protist predation in soil, it appears to be important to take protist traits into consideration. |
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3 | Lisa van Sluijs |
The cover illustrates my thesis in a nutshell. I have exposed genetically different wild isolates of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to their natural pathogen the Orsay virus to identify antiviral responses. The back of the cover shows the nematodes in their natural habitat (for example a rotting plant stem) and these nematodes are 'transferred' to the petridish on the front of the cover where they are exposed to the virus. |
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4 | Yanjie Xu |
It is as if migratory birds play Labyrinth twice a year. However, for them it is not a game, there are no second chances and there is no turning back. They evolved to be great ‘players’ but they may start losing this ‘game’ due to the rapid changes in the maze which is not a playful labyrinth, but a patchwork of suitable habitats connected by flightpaths. The costs of failure are fatal, both for these ‘players’ and for us who change the rules. |
CATEGORY 2 - FIELDWORK |
1 | Roos de Adelhart Toorop |
Streetlife in rural India. This picture shows daily life of smallholder farmers in Northern Bihar, one of the poorest states of India. In our research we integrate everything you see: there is a goat, a cow, a pile of manure, a field where potato and maize are intercropped. A group of women grouped together, a salesman with snacks, a kid running away. The little houses where these people find their homes. The trees, providing fruits and shade. Together with the farmers we look for ways to improve their livelihoods based on these biophysical and socio-economic elements |
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2 | Rens Brouwer |
In this picture we see a group of scientists of the NewFor project on an observation deck, looking at what seems to be a fully grown forest in the Atlantic forest of Brazil. But if you look closer you can see that this used to be monoculture Eucalyptus plantations. These plantations have been abandoned and the original Atlantic forest vegetation is starting to grow back in the understory. Abandoning plantations is only one of the many efficient methods of forest restoration in Brazil, the result is a landscape recovering what was once lost and, and eventually, a forest rich in biodiversity. |
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3 | Sara Cazzaniga |
A small mushroom peeping out. |
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4 | Valentin Heinzelmann |
Autumn in Swedish Lapland. During our stay in Abisko, 200 km north of the polar circle, we were constantly reminded of the approaching winter as we observed the snowline descending the mountains from day to day. Intrigued by the colourful scenery, we collected leaf litter for a decomposition study in Amsterdam. Winter in the arctic prevails for almost half a year, hence slow but long-lasting processes are important for annual carbon and nutrient budgets. Looking forward to our next visit! |
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5 | Milou Huizinga |
March 30th 2020. It's two weeks after the lockdown of universities, schools, daycares, and everything else... I had been stuck at home with two young kids while 33 weeks pregnant. A weird, uncertain, and very challenging time. My face in this picture is that of excitement of finally being able to get out for a bit. Out there it felt - for a split second - like nothing was going on in the world. It was very much worth it. Even though after this trip I had to decide to start my pregnancy leave early and take care of my family. Family first. |
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6 | Paul Ravensbergen |
Typical Dutch – rain is imminent while taking crop measurements in a potato field. |
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7 | Ximena Tagle |
In January this year, I went to present the results of my research at the local communities where I collected the data. While we were waiting for the workshop to start, we sat by the river and we saw these boys playing in the canoe and swimming from time to time. |
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8 | Yanjie Xu |
It was an exciting day. We ringed 382 passerines, including more than two hundred coal tits. In the end, this predator smelt the aroma of his food. He came to the net. |
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9 | Shudong Zhang |
Saving the car from the muddy forest. |
CATEGORY 3 - LABWORK / MODELLING |
1 | Jeroen Alkema |
Flies (Drosophila suzukii) use odours to find and destroy our fruit crops. In order to prevent this, we tried to highjack the odour system of the flies. We tested ten volatile compounds in a very small ventilated and heated room. To protect myself, I wore a gasmask for six hours each day. This is me right before I took a breather. |
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2 | Sara Cazzaniga |
The perks of working from home. |
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3 | Simone Nordstrand Gasque |
Hand drawn lifecycle of Dicrocoelium dendriticum showing the location of the metacercaria in the headcapsule of the intermediate ant host. |
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4 | Dewi Pramanik |
Autumn in Swedish Lapland. During our stay in Abisko, 200 km north of the polar circle, we were constantly reminded of the approaching winter as we observed the snowline descending the mountains from day to day. Intrigued by the colourful scenery, we collected leaf litter for a decomposition study in Amsterdam. Winter in the arctic prevails for almost half a year, hence slow but long-lasting processes are important for annual carbon and nutrient budgets. Looking forward to our next visit! |
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5 | Ingrid Cardenas Rey |
COVID-19 restricted us from many fun moments this year. However, the lovely colour of the controllers of our in vitro systems made me feel like in a real Halloween celebration! |
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6 | Cristina Rotoni |
Millet roots stained with blueink seen through a microscope lens. During my PhD I often stain roots to check mychorrizal colonization. In this slide the roots were overlapping and I was ready to discard it, but then I decided to take a look and I was surprised by this accidental human heart shape. |
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7 | Lisa van Sluijs |
The picture displays fragments of one of the movies I made to monitor nematode mating behavior. In specific, I tested if male nematodes were more attracted to uninfected than Orsay virus infected nematodes and found that males prefer healthy partners. |
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8 | Ximena Tagle |
Sometimes we expect to obtain nice predictions from our models but sometimes we only get picturesque results. This was one of the results from a CNN that I am training to automatically detect palm tree species in drone images. The white parts are supposed to be one palm species and the blue parts are supposed to be the "rest" (what we call background), but I got some "noisy" results that resemble a painting made with a sponge paintbrush. |
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9 | Shudong Zhang |
Flames flash from a burning experiment (a Black Pine branch is on fire). |