USE Biography



SCOTT HESTER, Harvard graduate student from the Extension School



Major: Bioengineering

College/Employer: Harvard

Year of Graduation: G

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

Hello!
I'm a recent arrival in Boston/Cambridge, and came here to learn as much as humanly possible. After a circuitous period following my undergraduate studies, I somehow landed a job in a support role at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. While there, I studied the research of the various laboratories on campus, and developed a great interest in microscopy. I enrolled in the NIH's graduate school, which lead to my eventual arrival in Cambridge. My biological interest include long non-coding RNA (and other RNA species), epigenetic modifications, photodynamic therapy, and teaching!
I hope to inspire the next generation of scientists in some fashion, and I look forward to contributing to the SPLASH! program.



Past Classes

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S103: MCB 000: Advances in Super-Resolution and Fluorescence Microscopy in Splash Spring 2021 (Apr. 17 - 18, 2021)
We are living in an unprecedented age of biological imaging. Courtesy of the development of genetically-encoded fluorescent proteins and the microscopes that exploit them, a vast wealth of biological dynamics have come to "light". This course will cover a wide range of imaging techniques, with emphasis on those that function below the diffraction limit. After a brief synopsis of the history of microscopy, various techniques such as PALM, STORM, SIM/FIB-SIM, Lattice Light Sheet (with adaptive optics), IsoView, and 2-Photon microscopy will be discussed. Fetal development, cancer metastasis, cellular endocytosis, dendritic arbor formation, neuronal firing kinetics, and single-molecule tracking will be illustrated using these methods.


S12: MCB 000: Advances in Super-Resolution and Fluorescence Microscopy in Splash Spring 2019 (Apr. 27, 2019)
We are living in an unprecedented age of biological imaging. Courtesy of the development of genetically-encoded fluorescent proteins and the microscopes that exploit them, a vast wealth of biological dynamics have come to "light". This course will cover a wide range of imaging techniques, with emphasis on those that function below the diffraction limit. After a brief synopsis of the history of microscopy, various techniques such as PALM, STORM, SIM/FIB-SIM, Lattice Light Sheet (with adaptive optics), IsoView, and 2-Photon microscopy will be discussed. Fetal development, cancer metastasis, cellular endocytosis, dendritic arbor formation, neuronal firing kinetics, and single-molecule tracking will be illustrated using these methods.