Micron Alumni

Assistant Facility Manager

Carina joined Micron in 2017 as assistant facility manager. She has more than ten years of experience in advanced optical microscopy, molecular biology and single-molecule biophysics. After finishing her studies in Biology at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, she had her PhD and first postdoc at the European Laboratory of Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) in Florence. At LENS she combined dual optical tweezers, fluorescence imaging and microfluidics to study gene expression and regulation at the single-molecule level. Then she moved to University of Oxford and King's College London for a postdoc in optics and biophysics, studying the assembly of pore forming toxins in complex mimics of the cell membrane. Carina built several bespoke fluorescence microscopes suitable for TIRF microscopy, polarisation, FRAP, smFRET and live cell applications.  Carina  particularly enjoys sharing her knowledge to help researchers deepen their understanding of microscopy. She enjoys assisting with imaging challenges, experiment design, image acquisition and analysis. 

Orchid ID: 0000-0002-5619-94

Research Microscope Developer

Jingyu is a postdoctoral microscope developer based in Dynamic Optics Group in Engineering Sciences and Micron in Department of Biochemistry. His interests and expertise are on adaptive optics and 3D super-resolution fluorescence microscope techniques. He is currently working on developing adaptive optics assisted ultra-high resolution 3D imaging for cell and tissue samples using 4Pi-SMS (SMLM) and 3D SIM microscopes.

email: jingyu.wang@eng.ox.ac.uk

Orchid ID: 0000-0002-2856-7602

Technical Director 2007-2021

Ian is now Research Professor and Director of the Integrated Imaging Center at The John Hopkins University.

email: ian.dobbie@jhu.edu

Ian has over 15 years experience in biological imaging gained in a range of leading academic institutes. He gained a degree in physics and a masters in computer modelling before moving on to do a PhD in muscle mechanics at the Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics at Kings College London. Since then he has been working in imaging with a range of biological systems at number of world class research centres including, Cancer Research UK, Kings College London and The University of Oxford. 

Facility Manager 2019 - 2021

Nadia is now Head of the Advanced Light Microscopy Unit at CRG, Barcelona.

email: nadia.halidi@crg.eu

Nadia has over 10 years experience teaching microscopy and using quantitative live-cell imaging techniques. She received her MSc in physics and chemistry from the University of Pécs and holds a PhD in biophysics from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Her graduate work focused on calcium dynamics and signal transduction. She then moved to Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral fellow to focus on cell migration and mechanotransduction. Before Micron, Nadia was a postdoc at NDORMS, Uni. Oxford focusing on breast cancer metastasis to bone using 2 & 3D microenvironments and developing image-based assays to validate new probes and inhibitors provided by the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC). While at NDORMS, Nadia also managed the Botnar Bioimaging Facility. Nadia enjoys teaching and helping in all aspects of imaging from designing experiments, to preparing samples, through imaging to image analysis and data visualization.