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.