There and Back Again - An MBL Story | FocalPlane
MBL course alumnus Falk Schneider was thrilled to find a way to return to the lab later in his career - and give back as a mentor. PAIR-UP (Partnering to Advance Imaging Research for Underrepresented scientists) launched in 2020 and is led by George Langford.
In May 2025, I had the pleasure of returning to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to teach in the PAIR-UP Microscopy course. It was a truly special experience as I not only got to meet and mentor many bright and curious young scientists, but it also marked a return to a magical place that had played a transformative role in my own scientific path.
My adventure at MBL as a course participant
Back in 2017/2018, during my PhD at the University of Oxford, I was looking to broaden my scientific horizon. I came across MBL’s advanced training courses and was immediately captivated. The offerings were wide-ranging from quantitative imaging to developmental biology and neuroscience. The one that caught my eye immediately was the Physical Biology of the Cell (PBoC) course run by Prof Rob Philips and Prof. Hernan Garcia. I had always been interested in using models to better understand biology and using math to put numbers on microscopy images. This course seemed like the perfect opportunity to provide a quantitative foundation. Read rest of the story here.
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