Among a total of more than 3,000 images submitted, the jury has selected the two images below as winners of the “scientific” and “non-scientific” categories of The EMBO Journal Cover Contest 2011. A few other favourites of the jury are showcased in our Online Gallery. Congratulations to the winners and to all participants!

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BEST SCIENTIFIC COVER IMAGE

Licence: The copyright of the two winning cover images is reserved by their creators. You may, however, reproduce the images at their current size on your own public website, under the condition that you give full copyright attribution to the creators, and provide a reference link back to covercontest.embo.org.

BEST NON-SCIENTIFIC COVER IMAGE

Blue Ice - This image is the first-prize winner of the non-scientific section of The EMBO Journal Cover Contest 2011. The photographer, Dieter Lampl, writes “Perito Moreno in Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, is one of the few glaciers in the world which is not shrinking but growing - a living phenomenon impressively demonstrated by the mighty cracking sounds from mid-afternoon onwards.”

Dr. Dieter C. Lampl’s alter ego is a passionate nature, wildlife, spiritual and travel photographer, and he says he sleeps best in his tent "somewhere out there". Feel welcome to see more of his photographs at www.dclphotography.com.

This image © 2011 Dieter Lampl

This confocal image of an Arabidopsis thaliana anther filled with pollen grains received the highest scores from the jury in the "scientific" section of the contest. The picture was recorded by Heiti Paves, a Research Scientist at the Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia, where his group is studying plant myosins in the Arabidopsis model system.

This image © 2011 Heiti Paves