Jason Swedlow Explained

Jason R. Swedlow
Birth Date:20 June 1961
Birth Place:Los Angeles, CA
Nationality:American
Field:Cell Biology & Bioimage informatics
Work Institutions:University of Dundee
Alma Mater:University of California, San Francisco
Doctoral Advisor:David Agard & John Sedat
Thesis Title:Distribution and Dynamics of DNA Topoisomerase II in Drosophila Chromosomes
Thesis Url:https://books.google.com/books?id=EkrdNwAACAAJ
Thesis Year:1994
Known For:Open Microscopy Environment (OME)
Prizes:BBSRC Innovator of the Year Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Website:OME
Research Profile

Jason Swedlow is an American-born cell biologist and light microscopist who is Professor of Quantitative Cell Biology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland. He is a co-founder of the Open Microscopy Environment and Glencoe Software. In 2021, he joined Wellcome Leap as a Program Director.

Education and career

Prof. Swedlow received a B.A. in Chemistry from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1982. He then earned a Ph.D. in Biophysics from UCSF in 1994, under the direction of Dr. David Agard and Dr. John Sedat. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr Tim Mitchison at UCSF and then Harvard Medical School, Dr Swedlow established his own laboratory in 1998 at the Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, as a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 2002 and named Professor of Quantitative Cell Biology in 2007. From 2021-2024, he has a part-time secondment as a Program Director at Wellcome Leap, running the Delta Tissue Program. He was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012 and appointed an Honorary OBE in 2021.

Research

Prof. Swedlow's research focuses on mechanisms and regulation of chromosome segregation during mitotic cell division[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] and the development of software tools for accessing, processing, sharing and publishing large scientific image datasets.[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] He leads OME, an international consortium that develops and releases open source software for biological imaging and Glencoe Software, which commercialises and customises OME technology for use in academic and biopharmaceutical research (e.g., Columbus from PerkinElmer, CellLibrarian from Yokogawa, and Amira from Thermo Fisher Scientific. He participates in Euro-BioImaging, Global BioImaging, and is co-Founder of BioImagingUK, a consortium of UK imaging scientists that develop, use, or administer imaging solutions for life sciences research. Using OME technology, he has collaborated with EMBL-EBI to develop the Image Data Resource, a public data resource for reference images from bioimaging.

Teaching

Prof. Swedlow has served as Faculty (since 1997) and Co-Director (2009 - 2014) of the Analytical & Quantitative Light Microscopy Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and participates as Faculty in the NCBS Bangalore Microscopy Course.

Family

Prof. Swedlow is married to Dr Melpomeni Platani, and has two children, Jan and Lena.

Notes and References

  1. Andrews . P. D. . Ovechkina . Y. . Morrice . N. . Wagenbach . M. . Duncan . K. . Wordeman . L. . Swedlow . J. R. . Aurora B regulates MCAK at the mitotic centromere . Developmental Cell . 6 . 2 . 253–268 . 2004 . 14960279 . 10.1016/s1534-5807(04)00025-5. free .
  2. Posch . M. . Khoudoli . G. A. . Swift . S. . King . E. M. . Deluca . J. G. . Swedlow . J. R. . 10.1083/jcb.200912046 . Sds22 regulates aurora B activity and microtubule-kinetochore interactions at mitosis . The Journal of Cell Biology . 191 . 1 . 61–74 . 2010 . 20921135 . 2953433 .
  3. Jaqaman . K. . King . E. M. . Amaro . A. C. . Winter . J. R. . Dorn . J. F. . Elliott . H. L. . McHedlishvili . N. . McClelland . S. E. . Porter . I. M. . 10.1083/jcb.200909005 . Posch . M. . Toso . A. . Danuser . G. . McAinsh . A. D. . Meraldi . P. . Swedlow . J. R. . Kinetochore alignment within the metaphase plate is regulated by centromere stiffness and microtubule depolymerases . The Journal of Cell Biology . 188 . 5 . 665–679 . 2010 . 20212316 . 2835940 .
  4. Moser . S. C. . Bensaddek . D. . Ortmann . B. . Maure . J. F. . Mudie . S. . Blow . J. J. . Lamond . A. I. . Swedlow . J. R. . Rocha . S. . 10.1016/j.devcel.2013.06.014 . PHD1 Links Cell-Cycle Progression to Oxygen Sensing through Hydroxylation of the Centrosomal Protein Cep192 . Developmental Cell . 26 . 4 . 381–392 . 2013 . 23932902 . 3757158 .
  5. Porter . I. M. . Schleicher . K. . Porter . M. . Swedlow . J. R. . Bod1 regulates protein phosphatase 2A at mitotic kinetochores . 10.1038/ncomms3677 . Nature Communications . 4 . 2677 . 2013 . 24157919 . 3826647. 2013NatCo...4.2677P .
  6. Esmaeeli-Nieh. Sahar. Fenckova. Michaela. Porter. Iain M.. Motazacker. M. Mahdi. Nijhof. Bonnie. Castells-Nobau. Anna. Asztalos. Zoltan. Weißmann. Robert. Behjati. Farkhondeh. Tzschach. Andreas. Felbor. Ute. Scherthan. Harry. Sayfati. Seyed Morteza. Ropers. H. Hilger.. Kahrizi. Kimia. Najmabadi. Hossein. Swedlow. Jason R.. Schenck. Annette. Kuss. Andreas W.. BOD1 Is Required for Cognitive Function in Humans and Drosophila. PLOS Genetics. 2016. 12. 5. e1006022. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006022. 27166630. 4864283 . free .
  7. Zdańkowski . Piotr . Trusiak . Maciej . McGloin . David . Swedlow . Jason R. . Numerically Enhanced Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy with Adaptive Optics for Deep-Tissue Super-Resolved Imaging . ACS Nano . 2020 . 14 . 1 . 394–405 . 10.1021/acsnano.9b05891 . 31841303. 209388232 .
  8. Swedlow . J. R. . Goldberg . I. . Brauner . E. . Sorger . P. K. . Informatics and Quantitative Analysis in Biological Imaging . 10.1126/science.1082602 . Science . 300 . 5616 . 100–102 . 2003 . 12677061 . 3522889 . 2003Sci...300..100S .
  9. Goldberg . I. G. . Allan . C. . Burel . J. M. . Creager . D. . Falconi . A. . Hochheiser . H. . Johnston . J. . Mellen . J. . Sorger . P. K. . Swedlow . J. R. . The Open Microscopy Environment (OME) Data Model and XML file: Open tools for informatics and quantitative analysis in biological imaging . Genome Biology . 6 . 5 . R47 . 10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-r47 . 2005 . 15892875 . 1175959 . free .
  10. Swedlow . J. R. . Goldberg . I. G. . Eliceiri . K. W. . Ome . C. . Bioimage Informatics for Experimental Biology* . 10.1146/annurev.biophys.050708.133641 . Annual Review of Biophysics . 38 . 327–346 . 2009 . 19416072 . 3522875 .
  11. Allan . C. . Burel . J. M. . Moore . J. . Blackburn . C. . Linkert . M. . Loynton . S. . MacDonald . D. . Moore . W. J. . Neves . C. . Patterson . 10.1038/nmeth.1896 . A. . Porter . M. . Tarkowska . A. . Loranger . B. . Avondo . J. . Lagerstedt . I. . Lianas . L. . Leo . S. . Hands . K. . Hay . R. T. . Patwardhan . A. . Best . C. . Kleywegt . G. J. . Zanetti . G. . Swedlow . J. R. . OMERO: Flexible, model-driven data management for experimental biology . Nature Methods . 9 . 3 . 245–253 . 2012 . 22373911 . 3437820 .
  12. Burel. JM. Besson. S. Blackburn. C. Carroll. M. Ferguson. RK. Flynn. H. Gillen. K. Leigh. R. Li. S. Lindner. D. Linkert. M. Moore. WJ. Ramalingam. B. Rozbicki. E. Tarkowska. A. Walczysko. P. Allan. C. Moore. J. Swedlow. JR. Publishing and sharing multi-dimensional image data with OMERO.. Mammalian Genome. 2015. 26. 9–10. 441–7. 10.1007/s00335-015-9587-6. 26223880. 4602067.
  13. Li. S. Besson. S. Blackburn. C. Carroll. M. Ferguson. RK. Flynn. H. Gillen. K. Leigh. R. Lindner. D. Linkert. M. Moore. WJ. Ramalingam. B. Rozbicki. E. Rustici. G. Tarkowska. A. Walczysko. P. Williams. E. Allan. C. Burel. JM. Moore. J. Swedlow. JR. Metadata management for high content screening in OMERO.. Methods. 2016. 96. 27–32. 10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.10.006. 26476368. 4773399.
  14. Williams E, Moore J, Li SW, Rustici G, Tarkowska A, Chessel A. etal. The Image Data Resource: A Bioimage Data Integration and Publication Platform. . Nat Methods . 2017 . 14 . 8 . 775–781 . 28775673 . 10.1038/nmeth.4326 . 5536224 .
  15. Ellenberg . Jan . Swedlow . Jason R. . Barlow . Mary . Cook . Charles E. . Sarkans . Ugis . Patwardhan . Ardan . Brazma . Alvis . Birney . Ewan . A call for public archives for biological image data . Nature Methods . 2018 . 15 . 11 . 849–854 . 10.1038/s41592-018-0195-8 . 30377375. 6884425 . free .
  16. Book: Besson . Sébastien . Leigh . Roger . Linkert . Melissa . Allan . Chris . Burel . Jean-Marie . Carroll . Mark . Gault . David . Gozim . Riad . Li . Simon . Lindner . Dominik . Moore . Josh . Moore . Will . Walczysko . Petr . Wong . Frances . Swedlow . Jason R. . Bringing Open Data to Whole Slide Imaging . Digital Pathology . Digital Pathology: 15th European Congress, Ecdp 2019, Warwick, UK, April 10–13, 2019: Proceedings. European Congress on Digital Pathology (15Th: 2019: Warwick, England) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . 2019 . 11435 . 3–10 . 10.1007/978-3-030-23937-4_1 . 31579322. 6774793 . 978-3-030-23936-7 .
  17. Moore . Josh . Allan . Chris . Besson . Sébastien . Burel . Jean-Marie . Diel . Erin . Gault . David . Kozlowski . Kevin . Lindner . Dominik . Linkert . Melissa . Manz . Trevor . Moore . Will . Pape . Constantin . Tischer . Christian . Swedlow . Jason R. . OME-NGFF: a next-generation file format for expanding bioimaging data-access strategies . Nature Methods . December 2021 . 18 . 12 . 1496–1498 . 10.1038/s41592-021-01326-w. free . 34845388 . 8648559 .

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