Advanced Light Microscopy and Image Analysis Core

Timeline of imaging technology

Staff

Director -- Richard Cole

Richard W. Cole:
received the B.S. degree in biology from SUNY College at Syracuse in 1983 and a Masters from SUNY New Paltz in 1985. He joined the Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY in 1985 as an electron microscopist working with the high voltage electron microscope. He later developed and managed the Wadsworth Center advanced light microscopy core. In that position, he designed and built a combined laser microsurgery optical trapping workstation that allowed investigators to ablate part or entire organelles within a living cell. He is currently working on development of a optical projection tomography system to allow high resolution mutli-mode images to be collected from larger objects such as embryos and larvae.

Imaging Specialist -- Robert Stack

Received an A.A.S. degree in Chemical Technology from H.V.C.C. in 1983 and a B.A. in Biology from Sage College in 1992. He joined the Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY in 1993 as a mass spectroscopist in the Biological Mass Spectrometry Core. He operated both a ThermoFinnigan TSQ-700 triple-quad and a Bruker Reflex I MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer. He was later appointed the Core Facility Manager and operated both ThermoFinnigan ion trap mass spectrometers -- an LCQ Deca interfaced to an Agilent 1100 capillary chromatography system and an LTQ interfaced to a Dionex nano-chromatography system. As of January 2009, Bob joined the Advanced Light Microscopy & Image Analysis core.