Paul Matsudaira, PhD

Whitehead Institute &
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nine Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
email: matsudaira@wi.mit.edu

Please visit our web site at: http://bioimaging.wi.mit.edu

The image above shows actin-rich processes (light blue) in a transformed fibroblast protruding through extracellular matrix. The yellow spheres represent the centroids of beads added to the matrix to allow measurement of forces generated by the cell as it migrates through the 3D environment. The image shown is a wireframe representation of an isosurface rendering extracted from a time-resolved 3D series.

The Whitehead·MIT BioImaging Center brings together a diverse and distinguished group of faculty from the Whitehead Institute and MIT biology, chemistry, computer science, and bioengineering departments along with research scientists, graduate students, and post-docs, all with a common belief: that complex cellular processes can best be understood by seeing with sophisticated imaging techniques, and then understanding the images through powerful computational methods.

A nexus for technology development, the BioImaging Center seeks to expand the frontiers of molecular imaging by building and beta-testing new instruments, applying powerful computational models to acquired data, and advancing commercial and clinical applications. Collaborative, curious, and committed, the BioImaging Center is a valuable resource to the global research community.