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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 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 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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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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The role of CZI in Expanding Global Access to Microscopy

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

Having noticed the impressive impact that CZI has had on bioimaging progress, community-building, capacity-building, and providing support to underserved communities, during this ‘Imaging the Future Week’ we decided to highlight the work of scientists worldwide, who are CZI grant-recipients. They shared with us their successes and challenges, the role that CZI has had on their
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