CITE (formerly the NIC) is a light microscopy core facility that has been supporting the HMS research community since 2001
Meet our team
Jennifer has been directing CITE since it opened (initially as the Nikon Imaging Center) in 2001. She has over 20 years experience teaching microscopy and advising research scientists on a wide range of quantitative imaging techniques. In addition to the microscopy courses and workshops she has developed at Harvard, she has been organizing the annual Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since 2011 and is the creator of the Microcourses YouTube channel (youtube.com/microcourses). In 2019, she received a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Imaging Scientist award.
Talley is our super-resolution and light sheet microscopy expert (Lambert & Waters, JCB 216 (1): 53 (2016)), and the creator of the Fluorescent Protein Database (fpbase.org; Lambert, Nature Methods 16, 277–278 (2019). Talley identifies and researches emerging imaging methods and technologies that may be beneficial to the HMS community.
Anna is our microscopy education guru. She has revamped and expanded our popular workshop course program in the past few years. She is particularly interested in providing users with the tools and knowledge necessary to enhance the reproducibility of their imaging experiments (Jost & Waters, JCB 218 (5): 1452 (2019)).
Federico is a post-doctoral fellow in the core (microfellows.hms.harvard.edu). He is learning to run a core facility, and working on mastering a wide range of imaging modalities. He developed our first ImageJ/FIJI workshop, and is learning Python with help from Talley Lambert.
Eva is a post-doctoral fellow in the core (microfellows.hms.harvard.edu). She is learning to run a core facility, and working on mastering a wide range of imaging modalities. Eva is working on our Microtutor project (coming in Summer 2024!).
OUR MISSION
To enhance basic research by providing access to state-of-the-art microscopy and imaging equipment
To provide dedicated expertise for ongoing technical consultation and support
To provide training courses on basic and advanced light microscopy techniques for the benefit of HMS and the greater Boston research community
To introduce the latest innovations in light microscopy and imaging to the HMS community
To serve as a learning center for our corporate partners and contributors