Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz received her Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University, did post-doctoral training at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and served as Chief of the Section on Organelle Biology at NICHD, NIH before becoming Group Leader at HHMI’s Janelia Farm Research Campus in 2016. Her lab has pioneered the use of green fluorescent protein (GFP) technology for quantitative imaging, including creating the photoactivatable GFP and co-developing the superresolution imaging technique of photoactivated localization microscopy. Her findings have fundamentally reshaped ideas about the spatio-temporal behavior and dynamic interactions of molecules and organelles inside cells and embryos.