Professor Jason R Swedlow
Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression
College of Life Sciences
University of Dundee, UK.
Biography:
Jason Swedlow earned a BA in Chemistry from Brandeis University in
1982. He performed his PhD in Biophysics with Profs D. A. Agard and
J. W. Sedat, finishing in 1994. Dr Swedlow was a postdoctoral fellow
with Dr T. J. Mitchison at UCSF and then Harvard Medical School from
1994 and 1998, supported by a Damon Runyon Walter Winchell Cancer
Research Fund Fellowship from 1995 to 1997. In 1998, Prof Swedlow
established his own laboratory at the Wellcome Trust Biocentre,
University of Dundee, Scotland as a Principal Investigator and
Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow and in 2002 was awarded a
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship. His lab specializes in
using high resolution fluorescence microscopy to probe the mechanics
of cell division in living cells and in developing software tools
that enable management, visualization and analysis of digital image
data. He participates as Faculty in the Analytical and Quantitative
Microscopy Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory and is co-
founder of the Open Microscopy Environment (http://openmicroscopy.org).
Talk Title: The Open Microscopy Environment: Open Image Informatics for Biological Microscopy
Abstract: