Jason Swedlow

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Jason R. Swedlow
Born (1961-06-20) June 20, 1961 (age 62)
Los Angeles, CA
Nationality
Cell Biology & Bioimage informatics
InstitutionsUniversity of Dundee
ThesisDistribution and Dynamics of DNA Topoisomerase II in Drosophila Chromosomes (1994)
Doctoral advisorDavid Agard & John Sedat
WebsiteOME
Research Profile

Jason Swedlow is an

cell biologist and light microscopist who is Professor of Quantitative Cell Biology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland. He is a co-founder of the Open Microscopy Environment and Glencoe Software. In 2021, he joined Wellcome Leap
as a Program Director.

Education and career

Prof. Swedlow received a B.A. in Chemistry from

UCSF in 1994, under the direction of Dr. David Agard and Dr. John Sedat. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr Tim Mitchison at UCSF and then Harvard Medical School, Dr Swedlow established his own laboratory in 1998 at the Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, as a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 2002 and named Professor of Quantitative Cell Biology in 2007. From 2021-2024, he has a part-time secondment as a Program Director at Wellcome Leap, running the Delta Tissue Program. He was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012 and appointed an Honorary OBE
in 2021.

Research

Prof. Swedlow's research[1] focuses on mechanisms and regulation of chromosome segregation during mitotic cell division[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] and the development of software tools for accessing, processing, sharing and publishing large scientific image datasets.

EMBL-EBI to develop the Image Data Resource
, a public data resource for reference images from bioimaging.

Teaching

Prof. Swedlow has served as Faculty (since 1997) and Co-Director (2009 - 2014) of the Analytical & Quantitative Light Microscopy Course at the

Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and participates as Faculty in the NCBS
Bangalore Microscopy Course.

Family

Prof. Swedlow is married to Dr Melpomeni Platani, and has two children, Jan and Lena.

References

  1. ^ Jason Swedlow publications indexed by Google Scholar
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