Heather Brown-Harding

Heather received her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Florida. Most recently, she came from Wake Forest University (North Carolina), where she was the director of the microscopy core at Wake Downtown. She has worked with biologists, chemists, biophysicists, biomedical engineers, and material scientists, helping them perform cutting-edge imaging experiments. Heather has a broad knowledge base and trains on all instruments, but specializes in live-cell imaging, expansion microscopy, and super-resolution microscopy.  She is the lead scientist at the Live Cell Imaging Core @SCRB.  

Fixation artifacts and how to minimize them

Posted by Heather Brown-Harding, on 7 July 2020

Sample preparation is the first step for having high-quality images that will impress everyone, but it is often overlooked. Many times I have tried to help others improve their microscope images, only to find out that improvement was not possible due to the quality of the sample. No matter how expensive your microscope is, you