Current Lab Members

Contact

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1069-1816

Email: caterina.strambio@umassmed.edu

Phone number: +1 (508) 856-2383

Awards

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Imaging Scientist Award 1st round (2019-2024)

Project title: Bridging the gap between quantitative bioimaging and bench scientists

Leadership Positions

1- Chair of the BioImaging North America Quality-Control and Data Management Working Group |

2- Member of the QUAREP-LiMi Executive Council |

3- Elected Member of the QUAREP-LiMi Steering Committee |

4- Elected Co-chair of the QUAREP-LiMi Metadata Working Group (WG7) |

5- Member of the ABRF Committee on Core Rigor and Reproducibility |

6- Member of the NIH CFDE Ontology Working Group |

Biography

Dr. Strambio-De-Castillia hails from Italy. In 1988 she received her Laurea in Biologia from the University of Pavia while training with Silvano Riva and Arturo Falaschi. From 1989 to 1992, she was a visiting scientist at Eric Hunter's lab, where she worked on retroviral assembly. She obtained her Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University, where she worked as a Graduate Student in the lab of Nobel Laureate Gunter Blobel to uncover the relationship between the Nuclear Pore Complex and the control of gene expression. She then joined the lab of Mike Rout at the same institution, where she uncovered the molecular composition of the Nuclear Basket and highlighted its role in preserving Nuclear Envelope structure and function.

She has extensive multidisciplinary training in cellular and molecular biology, advanced microscopy, bio-image informatics, and research data management. Her work highlights the importance of open science and FAIR data principles in advancing basic biology and ensuring the sustainability and reusability of research.  

Caterina has a demonstrated ability to bring together individuals with diverse expertise and scientific backgrounds. She is a recognized and passionate teacher with extensive experience tailoring training to individual scientific interests, backgrounds, perspectives, and areas of origin.

Caterina leads several community efforts to empower collaboration at both the national and international levels. In addition, she has a recognized leading role in the community, as testified by her many  responsabilities and awards (see above).

Alex is an expert software engineer (i.e., Java, C, JavaScript, Python, etc.). His scientific interests center upon building solid, reusable, and easy-to-use open-source scientific software to extend the capacity of experimental biologists to exploit the potential of big-data science. Alex obtained his Bachelor's and Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Applied Arts and Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). in Lugano, Switzerland. His expertise ranges from parallel and distributed programming to high-end open-source software engineering. In the Strambio lab, he led the development of the OMEGA Single Particle Tracking Application, the microscopy metadata harvesting Micro-Meta App, and the automated OMERO Importer for image data and metadata.

Efe holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Statistics, which he obtained from McGill University in Québec, Canada.

In the Strambio-De-Castillia lab, he works to develop Next Generation Metadata frameworks compatible with OME-Zarr to capture NBO-Q microscopy metadata community specifications