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Jason Swedlow explains what constitutes image metadata, and provides examples on how to catalog, organize, analyze, and share the metadata of biological images.

In order to understand an image of a biological sample and what it represents, one needs to understand its metadata. Metadata is the information behind the image that shows the experimental procedure, image acquisition settings, and the analysis performed on the data in order to obtain the represented image. Dr. Jason Swedlow explains what constitutes image metadata, and provides examples on how to catalog, organize, analyze, and share the metadata of biological images.

Speaker Biography:
Dr. Jason Swedlow is a professor at the University of Dundee in Scotland, and co-founder of the Open Microscopy Environment (OME) project. Swedlow obtained his bachelors in Chemistry from Brandeis University (1982), and completed his PhD in Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (1994). He continued his scientific training as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Tim Mitchison. In 1998, Swedlow joined the faculty at the University of Dundee where he studies the mechanisms and regulation of chromosome segregation during mitotic cell division. Swedlow is also involved in the development of software tools for accessing, processing, sharing and publishing large scientific image datasets. For his scientific contributions, Swedlow was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Visit his lab website and learn more about Swedlow’s research:
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