Dr. Paul McMillan is the head of the Biological Optical Microscopy Platform at the University of Melbourne. The platform provides research support for over 350 researchers using fluorescence-based imaging applications, as well as running free microscopy education seminars/workshop that are attended by over 700 researchers annually. Applications that are covered by the platform include confocal, live cell imaging, slide scanning, multi-photon, lightsheet, high content imaging, super-resolution microscopy and image analysis. Dr McMillan’s expertise is in the application of super-resolution microscopy techniques. He has developed protocols for the application 3D-Structured Illumination Microscopy (3D-SIM) and Single Molecule Localisation Microscopy (SMLM) techniques such as direct Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (dSTORM). He continues to collaborate widely in these areas and has published 23 journal articles using these techniques. Dr McMillan is an author on 41 research publications in peer-reviewed journals including Science, Nature Communications (x2) and Cell Reports, with h-index of 27 and 2080 citations. He is the president of Light Microscopy Australia, a national body with over 150 members, and has been awarded over $3.2 million in competitive equipment grant funding, including five ARC LIEF grants.
Scientific field: Cell biology, Microbiology, Parasitology
Posted by Paul McMillan, on 9 November 2024
