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Join the KNVM Microphotography contest to celebrate the beauty of microbiology.

Submissions are currently closed. Voting will be possible during the Scientific Spring Meeting.

Microbiology is beautiful! The KNVM wants to celebrate this beauty with a microphotography contest and give microbiologists the opportunity to showcase their work in a creative way.

The shortlist of nominees for the 2026 contest can be found here.

Cast your vote for the 2026 winner here (open March 31 and April 1, 2026).

Below are the winners of previous editions.

Conditions

The photographs:

• must relate to microbiology. It can be anything related to microbiology, from a microscopic picture, art on a agarplate to a stack of plates.
• must be your own artwork, i.e. you must own the copyright.
• in .eps or .tiff format, minimal size 1200 pixels (width) and maximum 15Mb.

Three to five winning photographs are selected by the KNVM board. These photos are exhibited on the Scientific Spring meeting of the KNVM and the ultimate winner is selected using the votes of the participants of the Spring meeting. The final winner will receive a gift card. The winning photographs are also shown on the KNVM website.

Every participant can upload a maximum of two photographs, please use a separate form for each submission.