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.

Claire Brown

McGill University

Dr. Brown has been working in the field of quantitative light microscopy for over 25 years. As director of the Advanced BioImaging Facility (AIBF) at McGill University in Montreal, she oversees 16 state-of-the-art microscopes and an expert staff who serve ~300 users from diverse research areas in physical, life and health sciences. Through her work with the ABIF they have run more than 90 workshops and courses training thousands of researchers in fundamental and advanced imaging techniques including the Montreal Light Microscopy Course (MLMC). She also runs a research program focused on the development and application of biophysical techniques to understand the molecular mechanisms that regulate normal and pathological cell migration. Projects also focus on microscopy standards and quality control and optimal live cell imaging conditions to minimize phototoxicity. Knowing that we are stronger together and can learn so much from each other she is actively involved in several national and international networks including Canada BioImaging (CBI), BioImaging North America (BINA) and Global BioImaging (GBI).