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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Uri Manor

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

OPEN DISSEMINATION OF NOVEL IMAGING TOOLS FOR THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY Uri Manor is an imaging scientist with a background in cell biology and computational methods. His project focuses on building new probes to improve and accelerate research, and on using artificial intelligence to break barriers in the way we do microscopy.  What was the inspiration
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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Narine Sarvazyan

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

BUILDING A BIOMEDICAL IMAGING NETWORK FOR FORMER SOVIET COUNTRIES Narine Sarvazyan, PhD holds multiple affiliations. She is a Senior Researcher at the Orbeli Institute of Physiology, and a Professor at the George Washington University and at the American University of Armenia. She serves as a main PI on the CZI project to create a regional
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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Beth Cimini

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

COLLABORATING ON CUSTOMIZED IMAGE ANALYSIS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Beth Cimini is the Associate Director for Bioimage Analysis for the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where together with her team she directs efforts of software engineering including tools such as CellProfiler, researching morphological profiling and developing imaging assays. Her efforts also
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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Kerry Thompson

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

DEVELOPING A NATIONAL CENTER FOR DOCTORAL TRAINING IN MICROSCOPY Kerry Thompson is an Anatomist and Microscopist in the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Galway in Ireland. Through her project, she aims to establish a National Center for training in microscopy, imaging and related technologies. She is working towards generating
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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Thierry Pecot

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

BRINGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO BIOLOGISTS Thierry Pécot is an engineer and applied mathematician who develops deep learning frameworks for a variety of applications. As his project for the Cycle 1 imaging scientist call, Thierry Pécot proposed enabling biologists to apply deep learning tools to their own images. He interacts with biologists to identify the needs required to develop deep
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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Helen Spiers

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

ADVANCING MICROSCOPY IMAGE ANALYSIS WITH CITIZEN SCIENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING Helen Spiers is the Biomedical Research Lead of The Zooniverse platform for online citizen science (www.zooniverse.org), as well as research scientist at The Francis Crick Institute. In her role, Helen Spiers develops novel online citizen science research projects in collaboration with international and interdisciplinary groups.
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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Adan Guerrero

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

CONNECTING THE MEXICAN BIOIMAGING COMMUNITY Adan Guerrero is an Associate Professor at the National Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy within the Biotechnology Institute at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is an awardee of multiple CZI grants, including one for the development of open nanoscopy methods, and one for the development of Mexican Bioimaging Workshops.
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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Michael Weber

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

UNLOCKING NEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH WITH MODULAR AND SHAREABLE ‘FLAMINGO’ LIGHT SHEET MICROSCOPES Michael Weber has focused a lot of his career in microscopy development. He is a grantee of the CZI cycle 1 grants to imaging scientists. As part of his project, he helps developing light sheet microscopes called ‘Flamingos’ that can travel between research
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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Michelle Itano

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

ENHANCING THE ROLE OF A MICROSCOPY CORE FACILITY TO CATALYSE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH Michelle Itano is a cellular biophysicist and Director of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Neuroscience Microscopy Core. Her project for the Cycle 1 Imaging Scientists CZI funding call aims to actively engage and grow collaboration between researchers and computer scientists to
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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Caron Jacobs

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

AFRICA BIOIMAGING CONSORTIUM: BUILDING THE AFRICAN MICROSCOPY COMMUNITY Caron Jacobs is one of the leaders of the Africa Bioimaging Consortium, whose aim is to unite a pan-African network of imaging and life scientists. The project focuses on enabling access to technology in various ways, including infrastructure, expertise, networking, and the ‘Teach Africa Microscopy’ program, tailored
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