Jason Swedlow BA, PhD

Jason Swedlow earned a BA in Chemistry from Brandeis University in 1982 and Ph.D. in Biophysics from UCSF in 1994. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. T. J. 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. His lab focuses on studies of mitotic chromosome structure and dynamics and has published numerous leading papers in the field.

He is co-founder of the Open Microscopy Environment (OME), a community-led open source software project that develops specifications and tools for biological imaging. In 2005, he founded Glencoe Software, Inc., a commercial start-up that provides commercial licenses and customization for OME software. In 2011, Prof Swedlow and the OME Consortium were named BBSRC's Social Innovator of the Year and Overall Innovator of the Year. In 2012, He was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Prof Swedlow is Co-Director of the Analytical and Quantitative Microscopy Course, an annual course that covers the latest developments in advanced quantitative light microscopy at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA.