Enjoy images from our community photo contest, inspired by science and Nature
The Wyss Institute has a long history of celebrating the intersection of science and art. Each day, we’re inspired by Nature to improve human and planetary health through innovations that cross boundaries between different disciplines, including bioinformatics and synthetic biology, microfluidics and genetic engineering, marine biology and robotics, and science and art. Our work has been featured in art and design museums around the world, from New York City to London to Seoul. To continue celebrating the connection between art and science and the multidisciplinary nature of our work, we held our third community image contest, “Visions of the Wyss 2023.”
The winning photos in the categories of Marvelous Microscopy, See Some Science: Research/Technology Images, Inspiring Nature, Community, and AI Art are featured below. Given the number of excellent submissions we received, some runners-up are included too. Enjoy these incredible visions of the Wyss!
1/22 Riccardo Rizzo, AI Art, WINNER: Reconciliation with Nature: toward a sustainable, bioinspired future 
2/22 Ada Huang, Inspiring Nature, WINNER: Streetfighter 
3/22 Haleh Fotowat and Tiffany Lin, Marvelous Microscopy, WINNER: Staining of neurons within, and multiciliated cells on the surface a Neurobot: A novel biological robot constructed using Xenopus laevis embryonic cells. 
4/22 Lindsay Brownell, Inspiring Nature, WINNER: Icebergs, Jokulssarlon, Iceland 
5/22 Alex Pauer, Community, WINNER: Instrumental Magic 
6/22 Douglas Blackiston, Marvelous Microscopy, WINNER: Motile cilia (green) present on the surface of tadpole skin. 
7/22 Seth Kroll, Inspiring Nature, WINNER: Arctic Fox, Iceland 
8/22 Johannes Stein, Marvelous Microscopy, WINNER: Confocal microscopy image of fixed HeLa cells stained for microtubules (cyan). 
9/22 Benjamin Freedman, Research/Technology, WINNER: Tissue adhesives: Built Tough. 
10/22 Michael Williams, Inspiring Nature, RUNNER-UP: Old Cottonwood 
11/22 Alex Ainscough, Marvelous Microscopy, RUNNER-UP: Psychedelic Blood Vessels 
12/22 Alican Ozkan & Anna Stejskalova, Marvelous Microscopy, RUNNER-UP: Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patient-derived fibroblasts (magenta) exhibit fibrosis by depositing fibrillar collagen (green) when exposed to pregnancy-associated hormones in the Colon Chip. 
13/22 Matthew Creighton, Science/Technology, RUNNER-UP: Soft matter cuff used in perfusable and suturable tissues on a quarter for scale. 
14/22 Huseyin Tas, Inspiring Nature, RUNNER-UP: Nature in flow 
15/22 Lindsay Brownell, Inspiring Nature, RUNNER-UP: Grasshopper on fence with flowers, Wachau Valley, Austria 
16/22 Mariana Garcia-Corral, Marvelous Microscopy, RUNNER-UP: Brain organoid growing on top of a multi electrode array. 
17/22 Ada Huang, Inspiring Nature, RUNNER UP: Chasing 
18/22 Douglas Blackiston, Marvelous Microscopy, RUNNER-UP: A Xenopus laevis tadpole with substage illumination. 
19/22 Seth Kroll, Inspiring Nature, RUNNER-UP: Harbor Seal in Iceland 
20/22 Lindsay Brownell, Inspiring Nature, RUNNER-UP: Glacier, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile 
21/22 Alex Pauer, Inspiring Nature, RUNNER-UP: Nature will Prevail 
22/22 Douglas Blackiston, Marvelous Microscopy, RUNNER-UP: An amphibian mucociliary organoid