Jennifer Waters

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Jennifer Waters
Alma mater UNC-Chapel Hill (PhD),
University at Albany, SUNY (BSc)
Known forMicroscopy, Teaching
Scientific career
Fields Microscopy,
Cell Biology
Institutions Harvard Medical School,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
Wake Forest University
Academic advisorsEdward D. Salmon
Website nic.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.

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Education

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

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

References

  1. 1 2 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)". April 23, 2021. 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 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.[ non-primary source needed ]
  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 10, 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.
  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. 1 2 "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.[ non-primary source needed ]
  19. ↑ Icha, Jaroslav; Weber, Michael; Waters, Jennifer C.; Norden, Caren (August 2017). "Phototoxicity in live fluorescence microscopy, and how to avoid it". BioEssays. 39 (8). doi:10.1002/bies.201700003. hdl: 21.11116/0000-0002-8C94-9 . PMID   28749075.[ non-primary source needed ]
  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.[ non-primary source needed ]
  21. ↑ Waters, Jennifer C. (June 29, 2009). "Accuracy and precision in quantitative fluorescence microscopy". Journal of Cell Biology. 185 (7): 1135–1148. doi:10.1083/jcb.200903097. PMC   2712964 . PMID   19564400.[ non-primary source needed ]
  22. ↑ Waters, Jennifer C; Wittmann, Torsten, eds. (2014). Quantitative Imaging in Cell Biology. Elsevier Science. ISBN   978-0-12-420138-5.[ page needed ][ non-primary source needed ]
  23. ↑ "napari-micromanager Plugin for Custom Microscope Control". Archived from the original on July 12, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
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