Alex Sossick

University of Cambridge

Alex heads the Imaging Facility at the Gurdon Institute, which includes a variety of microscopy techniques including confocal, high throughput and deconvolution. He is keen to raise the level of microscopy understanding and application, and runs and takes part in various microscopy courses.

Alison North

The Rockefeller University

Alison North is the Senior Director of the Bio-Imaging Resource Center and a Research Associate Professor at the Rockefeller University in New York, having established the center in April 2000.  She was an undergraduate at Cambridge University, undertook her PhD at Oxford University, and performed post-doctoral research in Salzburg, Austria and then Manchester, UK, where she was subsequently awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development fellowship.
Alison has advised and trained hundreds of Rockefeller University and external researchers in a wide variety of optical microscopy techniques.  She serves as a reviewer and panelist for several international granting agencies and as a member of external advisory boards for various imaging facilities.  She teaches on several microscopy courses, including directing the annual Optical Microscopy course at Woods Hole, MA, USA, gives regular invited microscopy lectures both nationally and internationally, and writes educational articles on microscopy.  She is currently co-chair of the BioImaging North America network of imaging scientists.

Peter O'Toole

University of York, UK

Peter heads the Imaging and Cytometry Labs within the Technology Facility at the University of York which includes an array of confocal microscopes, flow cytometers and electron microscopes. Peter gained his PhD in the Cell Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Essex and has been involved in many aspects of fluorescence imaging. Research is currently focused on both technology and method development of novel probes and imaging modalities. 

Peter has ongoing collaborations with many leading microscopy and cytometry companies and his group also provides research support to many academics and commercial organisations. Peter is also heavily involved with teaching microscopy and flow cytometry which includes organising and teaching on both the RMS Light Microscopy Summer School and the RMS Practical Flow Cytometry courses.