Michelle Itano, PhD, an adjunct prof successful the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, is 1 of 10 co-principal investigators that received a 2 twelvemonth assistance called “Curated Imaging Science Education for Learners and Trainers.”
Michelle Itano, PhD, an adjunct prof successful the UNC School of Medicine's Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and manager of the Neuroscience Microscopy Core astatine the UNC Neuroscience Center. 
Michelle Itano, PhD, an adjunct prof successful the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and manager of the Neuroscience Microscopy Core astatine the UNC Neuroscience Center.The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) fosters collaboration betwixt scientists and engineers, develops caller technologies, and builds enactment for basal technological research.
Their imaging programme aims to thrust the improvement of caller imaging tools successful bid to observe biologic processes successful the hopes of unlocking caller understandings of quality wellness and disease.
Michelle Itano, PhD, an adjunct prof successful the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, is 1 of 10 co-principal investigators that received a 2 twelvemonth assistance called “Curated Imaging Science Education for Learners and Trainers.”
As portion of the team’s project, which besides includes researchers from Harvard Medical School, Duke University, Vanderbilt University and different institutions, they are gathering an acquisition website for students to larn imaging subject and for imaging teachers to interact and stock acquisition materials.
“Microscopy and representation investigation are almighty techniques successful biomedical probe that necessitate extended expertise to instrumentality efficaciously and reproducibly,” said Itano. “We anticipation to accelerate technological find by providing researchers with a free, unfastened and easy-to-use online portal filled with carefully-curated high-quality resources for some learning and teaching imaging science.”
In fact, the caller task neatly coincides with Itano’s relation arsenic manager of the Neuroscience Microscopy Core astatine the UNC Neuroscience Center. As director, she provides and customizes state-of-the-art optical imaging and investigation applications to enactment a wide scope of technological investigations. She besides trains scientists astatine UNC-Chapel Hill and consults with them to afloat code their imaging needs done her expertise.
Read the afloat announcement from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative here.
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