Affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Department of Microbiology

Paula Montero Llopis is the Director of Microscopy Resources on the North Quad (MicRoN) Core Facility at Harvard Medical School. Her graduate and postdoctoral studies focused on developing imaging tools to understand the molecular mechanisms by which cells achieve their intricate internal organization. She received her PhD in 2011 from Yale University in the laboratory of Christine Jacobs-Wagner, studying the organization of the flow of genetic information in bacteria. She worked as a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellow in David Rudner’s lab at Harvard Medical School, where she studied the molecular mechanisms by which bacterial cells are organized internally, specifically how they organize and segregate their chromosomes. Her current position as the MicRoN Core Director allows her to share her expertise in quantitative light microscopy, facilitating research in a broad range of disciplines, including bacterial cell biology, host-pathogen interactions, and neurobiology. She also assists trainees in tool development to investigate human disease, tissue architecture, and transcriptomics, in addition to whole organ or organism imaging in both live and optically cleared samples. Her passion is to train researchers in the fundamentals of quantitative microscopy and to help them improve data collection, rigor, and reproducibility in image-based science.