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I. Monica Hasegan Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute Mount Sinai Hospital 600 University Avenue Room 1070P Toronto ON M5G 1X5 Canada Phone: 1-(416)-586-4800 ext.6196 Facsimile: 1-(416)-586-8869 Email: mhasegan at gmail dot com LinkedIn: My profile
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Since 2010, I have been a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Laurence Pelletier Bioimaging laboratory at Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, which is part of the Mount Sinai Hospital, in Toronto, Canada. I have a few roles here.
The main responsability consists in image processing and analysis, and quantitative analysis of microscope images of mammal cells, taken with our in-house excellent optical microscopes. To date, I published two papers, one in Nature Cell Biology and another one, in Current Biology.
I also test new software and techniques for image pre-processing (for example denoising), for investigating the quality of the processed images (i.e. if there are image artefacts or not) etc.
Another role I have in this lab is to assist other colleagues with image analysis issues.
I am also responsible for maintaining our 6 Delta-Vision Elite microscopes and our super-resolution OMX (Optical Microscope eXperimental) Blaze microscope properly functioning. In case of malfunction, I try to troubleshoot the problems and to work with the Apllied Precision engineers to fix them.
One of my other tasks is to install and update software on our Unix and Windows computers, to have our computers properly connected to the institute network and to make sure that all my colleagues have
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Between 2007 and 2009, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Mouse Imaging Centre (MICe) at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. My supervisor was Prof. R. Mark Henkelman.
My research focused on optical developments for improved depth of field in the Optical Projection Tomography (OPT) imaging. This work offered me the possibility of going from concept, through designing the optical setup, building the setup on an optical bench, testing it and packaging it for other users. For more details, please check out my research page.
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Before this, I was awarded a Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (USA) in January 2007. My Ph.D. advisor was Dr. Patrick Côté.
During my Ph.D., I studied the formation, evolution and structure of faint stellar systems, like globular clusters, ultra-compact dwarf galaxies and dwarf elliptical galaxies. Please see my research page for a more detailed description.
So my studies went from the macroscosmos to the microscosmos. But it seems that they are not that different. Isn't this amazing?