University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States
Kevin Dean was raised in a small town in Northern California, received his B.A. in Chemistry at Willamette University in Oregon, and was recognized twice as an ESPN Regional Academic All-American Running Back in Football. After college, he and two friends rode bicycles across the United States to raise money and awareness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, which is more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, in honor of a close friend that succumbed to the disease. He then received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Colorado under the guidance of Dr. Amy Palmer and Dr. Ralph Jimenez. Here, his work focused on spectroscopy, protein engineering, and multi-parameter high-throughput microfluidic analyses and cell sorting. Following graduation, he established the first campus-wide light microscopy facility at the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado, and then moved to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas to perform his postdoctoral research under the guidance of Dr. Gaudenz Danuser and Dr. Reto Fiolka. During this time, he was named a Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow, received the Dean’s Discretionary Award at UT Southwestern, and was the runner-up for the UT Southwestern Brown-Goldstein Excellence in Postdoctoral Research award. Today, he runs an interdisciplinary lab at UT Southwestern that aims to develop and use advanced imaging, optical probes, tissue clearing, and computer vision technologies to elucidate the cell biological origins of tissue function in health and disease.
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Autonomous Multiscale Axially Swept Light-Sheet Microscopy
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM US CST
Quantitative Cleared Tissue Imaging
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM US CST