keynote lecture from Anne Carpenter from our Sept 1 Workshop

ANNE CARPENTER
Director, Imaging Platform
Broad Institute
of Harvard and MIT

High-Content Morphology Profiling for Targeting Diseases and Characterizing Compounds

Biography – Anne leads the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, a team of biologists and computer scientists who develop image analysis and data mining methods and software that are freely available through the open-source CellProfiler project (www.cellprofiler.org). She collaborates with dozens of biomedical research groups around the world to help identify disease states, potential therapeutics, and gene function from microscopy images. She is a Massachusetts Academy of Sciences fellow, an NSF CAREER awardee, and has been funded by the NIH, Human Frontiers in Science, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.