The cover collage for this issue incorporates still images from the following winners from the BioImages competition at BCA's BIOCOMM 2004 Annual Meeting in Boston (clockwise from top left):

Award of Excellence
Canadian Founders Natural Science Award
The Sentinel: Red Tailed Hawk
Anita Tellier ©
Clinton, CT

Award of Excellence
Specimen
Presence of LacZ Beta-galactosidase Activity
Richard Frederickson ©
Frederick, MD

Award of Excellence
Ensete ventricosum "Maurelii"
Karna McKinney ©
Alaska Fisheries Science Center NOAA
Seattle, WA

Certificate of Merit
Gastric Pacemaker
Lou Davis ©
Will Willner ©
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC

Certificate of Merit
Forest Coral
Anita Tellier ©
Clinton, CT