Dr. Alison J. North

Alison North is the Director of the Bio-Imaging Resource Center and a Research Assistant Professor at the Rockefeller University, having moved to New York to establish the center in April 2000. A native of Yorkshire, UK, she was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge and received her doctorate from Oxford University. She undertook post-doctoral research in Salzburg and then Manchester, where she was later awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development fellowship. Her research projects primarily focused on electron microscopy until she first encountered GFP and soon became hooked on live cell imaging. She now advises and trains hundreds of Rockefeller University and external researchers in a wide variety of optical microscopy techniques. Dr. North’s images and movies have been exhibited worldwide, including in science exhibits at the International Center of Photography in New York and on the television science series “Nova.”