Personnel
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Sam Johnson, PhD
sam.johnson@duke.edu |
Sam has been building and running the LMCF since March 2006. Previously he was a Postdoc in Tony Hunter's lab at the Salk Institute, CA where he became interested in techniques for studying signaling events in living cells. In attempting such techniques he spent a lot of time in rooms with no windows and also learned a fair amount about microscopes, microscopy and image analysis. He received a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Bristol and studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge in the UK.
He is interested in all aspects of imaging and should be contacted if he can be of any assistance to your research. He provides training and support for the all the microscopes and image analysis workstations.
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Heather S Gavilan |
Heather processes the monthly bills for LMCF and should be contacted for all billing-related issues. She works from home.
Heather has managed microscopes at Duke for several years but is currently taking a career break to attend to the needs of her young family. Prior to Heather's microscope support work with LMCF, she worked in Rick Fehon's lab for 7 years where she managed and regularly used the Zeiss 410 and 510 confocals for imaging Drosophila. Before her laboratory career, Heather spent two years teaching high school science. Heather received a BS in Biology with Chemistry minor from Virginia Tech.