Beth Cimini

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (MA, USA)

Beth Cimini holds a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from the Blackburn Lab at the University of California-San Francisco (CA, USA). after 5 years as a postdoc then computational biologist in Anne Carpenter’s lab at the Broad Institute (MA, USA), Beth started her own lab in 2021. The Cimini Lab is situated within the Imaging Platform of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (MA, USA). Her team works with biologists to help them create image analysis workflows. Additionally, her team is responsible for the maintenance and continual development of the open-source image analysis software, CellProfiler. In 2020, she was named a CZI Imaging Scientist for her work on making open-source image analysis tools more accessible to the bioimaging community and for her creation of a postdoctoral training program for bioimage analysis.