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Dr. Carpenter is the Director of the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. With her background in cell biology, microscopy and computational biology, she leads an interdisciplinary research group that develops and applies methods for extracting quantitative information from biological images in order to identify gene function, disease states, and therapeutic potential across diverse biological fields. The group's research yields algorithms that are available to the scientific community in the form of open-source software, CellProfiler and CellProfiler Analyst. Her group, and others around the world, apply this software to answer significant questions in the biomedical sciences. Dr. Carpenter received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Cell Biology. During her postdoctoral work with David Sabatini at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, she was co-mentored by Polina Golland at the Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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