Jason Swedlow

Jason Swedlow is an American born cell biologist and light microscopist who currently directs a research program at the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Dr. Swedlow is a co-creator of the Open Microscopy Environment, an important tool for light microscopists used for management of digital image data.

Dr. Swedlow received a B.A. in Chemistry from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA in 1982. He then earned a Ph.D. in Biophysics from UCSF in 1994, under the direction of Dr. David Agard and Dr. John Sedat. Dr. Swedlow was post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Tim Mitchison at USCF and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Swedlow teaches the Analytical & Quantitative Light Microscopy [http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/special_topics/aqlm.html] Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and the Immunocytochemistry, In Situ Hybridization and Live Cell Imaging course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

Dr. Swedlow's research focuses on mechanisms and regulation of chromosome segregration during mitotic cell division. His laboratory has published research articles in important scientific journals such as "Science" and "Cell".

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* [http://www.dundee.ac.uk/biocentre/SLSBDIV3jrs.htm Jason Swedlow Personal Page]
* [http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/newsevents/events.asp?eventid=277 Bioinformatics Institute lecture]