Dr Peter O'Toole

Dr Peter O'Toole

Head of Imaging and Cytometry, York

Appears in 84 Episodes

Chris Lintott (University of Oxford)

#24 — In this episode of The Microscopists, we’re joined by astronomer Professor Chris Lintott of the University of Oxford, co-founder of The Zooniverse citizen scienc...

Mark Bray (Novartis) and Pearl Ryder (Broad Institute)

#23 — In this episode of The Microscopists, we have a double-header for you as we’re joined by Mark Bray of Novartis and Pearl Ryder of the Carpenter Lab at the Broad ...

Richard Henderson (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

#22 — In this episode of The Microscopists, we’re joined by molecular biologist, biophysicist and Nobel Laureate Richard Henderson from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular...

Stephani Otte (CZI)

#21 — In this episode of The Microscopists, we’re joined by Stephani Otte, Imaging Program Officer for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. We’ll discuss her move from neur...

Yannick Schwab (EMBL)

#20 — In this episode of The Microscopists, we’re joined by Yannick Schwab of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, who is one of the pioneers o...

Jennifer Waters (Nikon Imaging Center)

#19 — Prepare for some serious houseplant envy in this episode of The Microscopists, as we talk to the multi-talented Jennifer Waters (@JenCWaters), Director of the Ni...

Anne Carpenter (Broad Institute)

#18 — You may know Anne Carpenter best as the brains behind the CellProfiler™ image analysis software, but today we learn more about what makes Anne tick, how she deal...

Ernst H.K. Stelzer (Goethe-Universität)

#17 — There’s no question that Ernst H. K. Stelzer is a key figure in the world of high-resolution fluorescence microscopy, but did you know that his love of physics s...

Spencer Shorte (Institut Pasteur)

#16 — You may know Spencer Shorte as Chief Scientific Officer to Institut Pasteur Korea, but as we’ll learn in today’s episode, he is also the creator of the Imagopol ...

Ottoline Leyser (UKRI)

#15 — Along with becoming a Dame, Ottoline Leyser also recently became Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a UK body dedicated to building a thriving...

Rita Strack (Nature Methods)

#14 — You may feel you know Rita Strack (Senior Editor at Nature Methods) already if you follow her engaging and friendly twitter feed (@rita_strack). But here we delv...

Rainer Heintzmann (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

#13 — You may know Rainer Heintzmann (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) as one of the pioneers of structured illumination microscopy (SIM) but here we delve more int...

Eric Betzig (University of California)

#12 — This episode of The Microscopists was recorded LIVE with a very special guest - Eric Betzig!We already know so much about Eric, but I hope that our chat will rev...

Petra Schwille (Max Planck Institute)

#11 — Petra is a dedicated high flyer that simply loves her work (and her music, for which there is little she cannot play to concert level!). We chat about how she wa...

Jeff W. Lichtman (Harvard University)

#10 — From Cajal to Google, networks to solve networks! Jeff is another person who simply does not stop innovating and exploiting new technology. In this podcast, he t...

Dan Davis (The University of Manchester)

#9 — What a time to chat with an immunologist! It makes a change to hear Dan talking about himself, how he developed his career, including the real motivation to becom...

Lucy Collinson (The Francis Crick Institute)

#8 — Lucy Collinson has been at the forefront of 3D volume and correlated electron microscopy since setting up the internationally renowned facilities at the Cancer Re...

Hari Shroff (NIH)

#7 — Young, successful and still so disarming. In this episode, Hari Shroff reveals what it was like to work in the exciting area of Super-Resolution microscopy during...

Scott E. Fraser (University of Southern California)

#6 — It would be fair to say that Scott Fraser has influenced the microscopy community more than most. As the person behind the Meta detector, he made a massive impact...

Ricardo Henriques (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência)

#5 — There’s no doubt that Ricardo’s career so far has been stellar. He’s moved up the career ladder at lightning speed, starting his own group in 2013, following only...

Alison North & Kurt Anderson (Rockefeller & Francis Crick)

#4 — Ever wonder how people end up working in a core facility? You are about to find out. In this show, Peter O’Toole welcomes Alison North from The Rockefeller Univer...

Jason Swedlow (The University of Dundee)

#3 — In this latest episode, Peter O’Toole chats to Jason Swedlow of The University of Dundee, whose open-source tools are revolutionising microscopy. While Peter has ...

Tony Wilson (The University of Oxford)

#2 — Step into a brief history of how the confocal microscope came to be! Peter O’Toole chats with one of the pioneers of the confocal microscope - Tony Wilson from th...

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

#1 — Join this informal chat between Peter O’Toole and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz of The Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Beyond kayaking to work and a passion for p...