Daniela Nicastro 24th Australian Conference on Microscopy and Microanalysis 2016

Daniela Nicastro

Daniela Nicastro received her Ph.D. in Biology from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany in 2000. Following 3 years in the lab of Prof. Baumeister at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich (1998-2001), she took a post-doctoral position at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Since 2006, she is an Assistant Professor of Biology and the director of the “Correlative Light and Electron Microcopy” (CLEM) facility at Brandeis University. She has 20 years of experience in electron microscopy of cellular structures and is a leading expert in cellular cryo-electron tomography. The research interest of the Nicastro lab is focused on studying the three-dimensional structure and function of cytoskeletal assemblies, molecular motors, organelles and cells using a combination of cutting-edge methods to elucidate the structure-function relationships of macromolecular complexes in situ, i.e. in their native environment. Other areas of interest include the development of cryo-EM and image processing techniques.