Carpenter Lab

Anne E. Carpenter

Principal Investigator Institute Scientist, Senior Director of the Imaging Platform
[CV]

Shantanu Singh

Senior Group Leader
I lead the image-based profiling team. We develop machine learning and statistical methods to create fingerprints of genes, chemicals, and diseases from microscopy images of cells.
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Allen Goodman

Senior Software Engineer
My primary interests are computer vision and machine learning and their applicability to cell and microbiology. I’m also interested in compilers, computer architecture, and software engineering.
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Beth Cimini

Computational Biologist II
I lead the image assay development team, which collaborates with biologists around the world to create open source image analysis pipelines to help turn images into quantitative data.
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Jeanelle Ackerman

Senior Operations Specialist
I do the things that the scientists don’t do!

Hamdah Shafqat-Abbasi

Postdoctoral Associate
My primary interest is applying advanced statistical methods and machine learning approaches to analyze high throughput image-based phenotypic screens to identify potential new drugs and their mechanisms of action to cure various diseases.

Marzieh Haghighi

Postdoctoral Associate
I’m eager to apply my training in machine learning and signal processing to build the tools needed for the next generation of diagnostics/therapies.

Gregory Way

Postdoctoral Associate
I use data science, machine learning, and software engineering to extract insights from large biomedical data sets. I am interested in image-based profiling, genomics, and systems biology.
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[GitHub]
[Twitter]

Nasim Jamali

Postdoctoral Associate
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the assay development team with a background in cell biology and microscopy. By creating image analysis pipelines we help researchers extract meaningful information from their microscopy images.

David R. Stirling

Postdoctoral Associate
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the image assay development team, with a background in infection and immunity. My passion is helping others use quantitative microscopy to answer biological questions. I am also interested in software engineering and machine learning.
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Becki Ledford

Administrative Assistant
I’m passionate about helping scientists do science! I have a background in research publishing, freelance writing and editing, and systems management. I have a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology.
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Srinivas Niranj Chandrasekaran

Postdoctoral Associate
I am a postdoctoral associate in the profiling team. I am a computational biologist and biophysicist by training with interests in developing mathematical and computational tools to model biological systems.

Erin Weisbart

Computational Scientist
As part of the image assay development team, I use my background as a biochemist/cell biologist to help other scientists make qualitative data quantitative.

Group alumni

Where are they now? Check their career progress on Dr. Carpenter's [CV]


Alum Years Role

Adam Fraser

2008–2011 Lead software developer for the CellProfiler Analyst project

Adam Papallo

2005–2007 Bioinformatics Analyst

A.J. (Hannes) Pretorius

2010-2013 Postdoc based in Roy Ruddle's lab, University of Leeds

Alison Kozol

2014-2016 Administrative and Information Technologies

Amin Allalou

2010 Visiting Ph.D student from Uppsala University, Sweden

Anna Thomas

2013 High School Student

Auguste Genovesio

2011–2013 Computational Biologist – Group Leader Image Analysis

Björn Nilsson

2008 Postdoctoral Associate

Carolina Wählby

2008-2015 Image processing algorithm development. P.I. forhigh-throughput C. elegans image analysis

Chris Gang

2006 High school student

Christina Wright

2010 Undergraduate student

Christoph Friedrich

2018 Visiting Master’s student from Univ of Applied Science in Esslingen, Germany

Christopher Lewis

2007–2008 Administrative Assistant

Claire Barnes

2019 Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher

Claire McQuin

2016-2018 Software Engineer

Colin Clarke

2005 Undergraduate student

Csaba Molnar

2018 Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher

David Dao

2015-2016 Graduate student

David Logan

2008-2016 Image assay development, specializing in neuronal experiments

Emily Schloff

2009 Undergraduate student

Fabian Theis

2017 Visiting Professor, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Gabriella Edfeldt

2017 Graduate student

Hans Liu

2010 Visiting M.S. student from Univ Cambridge

Holger Hennig

2013–2014, 2016, 2017 Affiliated Scientist

Imtiaz Khan

2010–2012 Postdoc, Marie Curie Fellow Research Executive Agency of the European Union (FP7) and Cardiff University, UK with Rachel Errington

InHan Kang

2005–2006 M. Eng. student in Polina Golland's lab at MIT

Jane Hung

2015–2018 Graduate Student

Jan de Boer

2012–2013 Visiting professor, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Jason Steffener

2006 Consultant

Jonathan Roth

2017 Visiting M.S. student

Joo Han Chang

2005 Undergraduate student

Juan Caicedo

2016-2019 Postdoctoral Associate

Jun Liu

2006 Undergraduate student

Kate Sokolnicki

2008–2012 Image assay development for high-content screens

Keone Hon

2008 Undergraduate student

Kyle Karhohs

2016-2018 Postdoctoral Associate

Kyungnam Kim

2007 Computational Biologist

Lachlan Arthur

2013 High school student

Lassi Paavolainen

2018 Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher

Laura Murphy

2017 Postdoctoral Researcher

Lee Kamentsky

2008-2016 Senior Principal Software Engineer for the CellProfiler project

Linfeng Li

2016-2017 Graduate student

Mark Bray

2008-2016 Image Assay Developer

Markus Weckmann

2017 Visiting Scientist

Marie Duc

2017 Visiting Student

Martha Vokes

2007–2008 Image Assay Developer

Matthew Veneskey

2012-2014 Administration and information technology

Matthew Smith

2018 High school student

Matthieu Broisin

2018 Visiting Master’s student from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland

Maxime Lafarge

2018 Student from Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands

Mayank Kabra

2008 Visiting Ph.D student from Yoav Freund's lab at UCSD

Mike Lamprecht

2005–2007 Data Analyst

Minh Doan

2016-2019 Postdoctoral Researcher

Mohammad Rohban

2015–2018 Postdoctoral Associate

Nick Pawlowski

2016 Visiting graduate student

Nikka Moshkov

2019 Student from University of Szeged, Hungary

Ola Friman

2005–2006 Consultant

Paul Rees

2013 Visiting professor, Swansea University, United Kingdom

Peggy Anthony

2007–2012 Administration and information technology

Peter Goldsborough

2017 Undergraduate Student

Peter Swire

2006 High school student

Priyanka Raja

2016 Visiting graduate student

Riley Vale

2018, 2019 Undergraduate student

Rob ter Horst

2011 Visiting M.S. student from Lutgarde Buydens' lab at Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands

Robin Neschke

2010 Undergraduate student

Rodrigo Ipince

2007 Undergraduate student

Rupinder Singh

2011 Undergraduate student

Samuel Markson

2013 CellProfiler build engineer

Santiago Benoit

2017, 2018 High school student

Shravas Rao

2009 Undergraduate student from MIT

Steve Moore

2016 Visiting Scientist

Tammy Riklin Raviv

2010–2012 Research Fellow, Biomedical Image Analysis

Tejas Shah

2009 Visiting M.S. student

Thomas Blasi

2014 Visiting PhD student

Thouis (Ray) Jones

2003–2010 Image processing and data mining for high-throughput image-based screens.

Tim Becker

2019-Present Postdoctoral Researcher

Tom Morgan

2008 Undergraduate student

Tony Wu

2005 Undergraduate student

Vasanth Singan

2010 Visiting M.S. student from Jeremy Simpson's lab at University College Dublin

Vasiliy Chernyshev

2017 Postdoctoral Associate

Vebjørn Ljoså

2007-2015 Data mining for microscopy-based high-throughput screens and profiling experiments

Vicki Lay

2006 Undergraduate student

Virginie Uhlmann

2011 Visiting M.S. student from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland

Wyman Li

2005 Undergraduate student