Bioimaging & Analysis On Demand Panel Discussion
Overview
Evolving requirements for drug discovery and basic research, such as the use of 3D cell cultures and live-cell studies, have led to more sophisticated image capture technologies. These technologies can provide highly detailed and complex images, which in turn require new analysis methods.
In this panel discussion focused on bioimaging and analysis, experts in the field explore how these technological developments have changed the landscape of bioimaging and detail key tools—including the Incucyte® Live-Cell Analysis Systems—that have facilitated improved image analysis.
Key Takeaways
This on demand panel discussion explores:
- The latest developments in bioimaging instrumentation
- How artificial intelligence (AI) has altered image analysis
- Novel applications and ground-breaking uses of bioimaging and analysis
Speaker Information
Beth Cimini
Senior Group Leader
Imaging Platform, Broad Institute (MA, USA)
Beth Cimini is a Senior Group Leader and CZI Imaging Scientist in the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute in Cambridge (MA, USA). The Cimini lab focuses on bioimage analysis tool creation (Piximi) and maintenance (CellProfiler), as well as on applying open-source tools to novel biological problems. She created and directs the Platform’s Postdoctoral Training Program in Bioimage Analysis, and also leads the Broad’s efforts toward community engagement and driving biological projects for the Center for Open Bioimage Analysis (COBA).
Irene Martinez Carrasco
Facility Manager of the Biochemical Imaging Center Umeå (BICU)
Umeå University (Sweden)
Irene Martinez Carrasco was born and raised in Madrid (Spain) where she studied Molecular Biology. She completed a PhD at the Children’s Hospital Boston (MA, USA), after which she was appointed with a technician position as a microscopist at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center (Madrid, Spain). After this period, she was recruited as the manager of the microscopy service at Umeå University (Sweden). During this time, she has been in contact with many research groups and a broad range of research topics. She mainly supports users with the use of the microscopes but also with image analysis.
Sheraz Ahmed
Senior Researcher
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI; Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Sheraz Ahmed is a Senior Researcher at DFKI GmbH in Kaiserslautern, where he is leading the area of Time Series Analysis and Life Science. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern under the supervision of Andreas Dengel and Marcus Liwicki. His research interests include pattern recognition, anomaly detection, Gene analysis, medical image analysis, and natural language processing. He published more than 100 papers on these, and related, topics.
Gillian Lovell
Senior Scientist, BioAnalytics
Sartorius
Dr Gillian Lovell is a Senior Scientist at Sartorius. Within the BioAnalytics group, she has worked across multiple research areas developing functional live-cell imaging assays and building these into customer-facing applications.
Gillian previously obtained a PhD in Chemical Biology from Imperial College using multidisciplinary techniques to synthesize probes for biological targets and evaluate their effects with biochemical and cell-based assays. After a period of postdoctoral research, she joined Sartorius in 2015 working on the Incucyte® Live-Cell Analysis Systems.
