This article contains my personal views and was inspired by the many years of problem solving I have applied to imaging biological samples generated by microscopy. Although I come from a background in electron microscopy, I have for the last eighteen years worked exclusively in light microscopy and more recently in live cell imaging.

Here at Duke, I mentor fellow faculty, postdocs and students in finding the best ways, not only to image their experiments in the right microscope, but to anticipate the kind of data they expect to extract from their images.