Juan Carlos Idrobo, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Washington, Materials Science and Engineering
Dr. Idrobo is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington and Director of Physical Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Davis, and his M.Sc. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Idrobo's research focuses on developing advanced electron spectroscopy and imaging techniques to study material properties at the atomic scale.
He has contributed to MSA through leadership roles and as a symposium organizer at numerous M&M Annual Meetings. He aims to empower the next generation of microscopists by integrating machine learning and AI into microscopy practices.
Bridget Carragher, PhD
Founding Technical Director, Chan Zuckerberg Imaging Institute
Bridget Carragher received her Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Chicago in 1987. She worked in a variety of positions, both in industry and academia
before moving to the New York Structural Biology Center in 2015 to lead the Simons Electron Microscopy Center (SEMC), together with Clint Potter.
While at SEMC, Bridget and Clint directed the National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy (NRAMM), the National Center for CryoEM Access and Training (NCCAT), the National Center for In-situ Tomographic Ultramicroscopy (NCITU), and the Simons Machine Learning Center (SMLC). They also founded the company NanoImaging Services in2007.
Bridget moved to her current role as Founding Technical Director of the Chan Zuckerberg Imaging Institute (CZII) in January 2023. The mission of CZII is to enable deep insights into the architecture of complex biological systems, at the molecular level, through the development and application of novel imaging technologies. The initial grand challenge is to develop technologies and methodologies to image the molecular architecture of the cell to near atomic resolution using cryo electron tomography.
