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Jennifer Waters
Alma materUNC-Chapel Hill (PhD),
University at Albany, SUNY (BSc)
Known forMicroscopy, Teaching
Scientific career
FieldsMicroscopy,
Cell Biology
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
Wake Forest University
Academic advisorsEdward D. Salmon
Websitenic.med.harvard.edu

Jennifer Waters is an American scientist who is a Lecturer on Cell Biology, the Director of the Core for Imaging Technology & Education[1](CITE; formally the NIC) and the Director of the Cell Biology Microscopy Facility at Harvard Medical School.[2] She is an imaging expert and educator[3] whose efforts to educate life scientists about microscopy and to systemize the education of microscopists in microscopy facilities serve as a blueprint for similar efforts worldwide.

Education

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Waters studied Biology at University at Albany, SUNY and graduated with a B.Sc. in 1992. In 1998, she earned her Ph.D. in Biology. During her Ph.D., she used quantitative fluorescence live cell imaging to study the mechanisms and regulation of mitosis in vertebrate tissue culture cells. After completing her thesis, supervised by Edward D. Salmon,[4] she moved to Wake Forest University, where she taught light microscopy courses in their graduate program.[5]

Career

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In 2001, she began her position as Director of the Nikon Imaging Center[6] and the Director of the Cell Biology Microscopy Facility at Harvard Medical School. In 2024, the NIC@HMS contract terminated and the core was renamed the Director of the Core for Imaging Technology & Education.[1] Waters and her staff advise and train users in a wide range of light microscopy techniques. Furthermore, she teaches light microscopy courses for graduate students at Harvard Medical School.

Over the years, Waters recognized the need for systematic training of technical imaging experts and implemented such training in the form of a new well-structured postdoctoral fellowship[7][8][9] that other facilities have started to implement as well improving technical microscopy expertise worldwide.[10]

Waters has also been involved in several microscopy courses outside of Harvard over the years, including the Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.[11]

Since 2011, Waters has organized an annual two-week course on Quantitative Imaging[12] at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Laurel Hollow, New York. Waters and her team created this course with a dense and comprehensive curriculum. It has become one of the top microscopy courses in the world.[13]

In 2019, Waters was named Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Imaging Scientist.[14] As part of this recognition, Waters has intensified her microscopy outreach activities, including the YouTube channel Microcourses[15] and the searchable database Microlist.[16]

Waters is on the editorial board of BioTechniques,[17] has authored multiple educational articles and reviews on quantitative microscopy,[18][19][20][21] and edited the book “Quantitative Imaging in Cell Biology”[22] with Torsten Wittmann (UCSF).

Awards and honors

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References

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  1. ^ a b CITE. "Core for Imaging Technology & Education". Core for Imaging Technology & Education. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
  2. ^ "Jennifer Waters". November 2020. Archived from the original on July 12, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  3. ^ "The Microscopists interviews Jennifer Waters (Nikon Imaging Center)". Archived from the original on July 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023 – via www.youtube.com.
  4. ^ "Salmon Lab Home Page". Archived from the original on April 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
  5. ^ "Interviews with Imaging Experts – Jennifer C. Waters, Ph.D. | Yokogawa Europe". Archived from the original on July 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
  6. ^ "Nikon Imaging Center at Harvard Medical School". Nikon Imaging Center at Harvard Medical School. Archived from the original on July 12, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  7. ^ Waters, Jennifer C. (September 1, 2020). "A Novel Paradigm for Expert Core Facility Staff Training". Trends in Cell Biology. 30 (9): 669–672. doi:10.1016/j.tcb.2020.06.001. PMID 32622700. S2CID 220372011 – via ScienceDirect.
  8. ^ "Dr. Jennifer Waters develops a novel fellowship program". cellbio.hms.harvard.edu. January 28, 2021. Archived from the original on July 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
  9. ^ "Advanced Microscopy Fellowship". Advanced Microscopy Fellowship. Archived from the original on July 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
  10. ^ Ravindran, Sandeep (December 8, 2020). "Core curriculum: learning to manage a shared microscopy facility". Nature. 588 (7837): 358–360. Bibcode:2020Natur.588..358R. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03466-z. PMID 33293714. S2CID 228080325. Archived from the original on July 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023 – via www.nature.com.
  11. ^ "Analytical And Quantitative Light Microscopy 2008 | History of the Marine Biological Laboratory". history.archives.mbl.edu. Archived from the original on July 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
  12. ^ "Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis 2023 | CSHL". meetings.cshl.edu. Archived from the original on July 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
  13. ^ "Microscopy Courses". hcbi.fas.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on July 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
  14. ^ a b "Advancing & Professionalizing Careers in Imaging Science". Archived from the original on July 12, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  15. ^ "Microcourses – YouTube". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on July 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
  16. ^ "Microlist – Microscopy courses, software, meetings & jobs". Microlist. Archived from the original on July 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
  17. ^ "Editorial board – BioTechniques". Archived from the original on July 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
  18. ^ Jost, Anna Payne-Tobin; Waters, Jennifer C. (March 20, 2019). "Designing a rigorous microscopy experiment: Validating methods and avoiding bias". Journal of Cell Biology. 218 (5). Rockefeller University Press: 1452–1466. doi:10.1083/jcb.201812109. ISSN 0021-9525. PMC 6504886. PMID 30894402.
  19. ^ Icha, Jaroslav; Weber, Michael; Waters, Jennifer C.; Norden, Caren (August 17, 2017). "Phototoxicity in live fluorescence microscopy, and how to avoid it". BioEssays. 39 (8): 1700003. doi:10.1002/bies.201700003. hdl:21.11116/0000-0002-8C94-9. PMID 28749075. S2CID 19974817. Archived from the original on July 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023 – via CrossRef.
  20. ^ Lambert, Talley J.; Waters, Jennifer C. (December 5, 2016). "Navigating challenges in the application of superresolution microscopy". Journal of Cell Biology. 216 (1). Rockefeller University Press: 53–63. doi:10.1083/jcb.201610011. ISSN 0021-9525. PMC 5223610. PMID 27920217.
  21. ^ Waters, Jennifer C. (June 29, 2009). "Accuracy and precision in quantitative fluorescence microscopy". Journal of Cell Biology. 185 (7). Rockefeller University Press: 1135–1148. doi:10.1083/jcb.200903097. ISSN 1540-8140. PMC 2712964. PMID 19564400.
  22. ^ "Quantitative Imaging in Cell Biology, Volume 123 – 1st Edition". shop.elsevier.com. Archived from the original on July 15, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2023.
  23. ^ "napari-micromanager Plugin for Custom Microscope Control". Archived from the original on July 12, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
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