Mehta Shalin B

At CZ Biohub, my group seeks to measure physical properties of biological systems with increasing precision, resolution, and throughput. I received Ph.D. at the National University of Singapore, working at the intersection of optics and biological microscopy. My thesis research led to better mathematical models and novel approaches for imaging cellular morphology. As a postdoctoral fellow and staff scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, I developed novel imaging and computational methods for detecting molecular order across a range of scales in living systems. Among other advances, my work led to instantaneous fluorescence polarization microscope that revealed the dynamics of molecular assemblies by tracking the orientation and position of single molecules in live cells. This work has been covered by MBL news, University of Chicago news, Gizmodo, BioTechniques, Optics & Photonics News, and Human Frontier Science Program. I can be found on twitter @mattersoflight and Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WqlCwNYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao).