Dr. Jay Jerome is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology and Director of the Electron Microscopy Core at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Jerome is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and the Microscopy Society of America and a past President of the Microscopy Society of America. His research is internationally recognized and he has taught a large number of national and international workshops on confocal microscopy and he co-authored the well-received “Basic Confocal Microscopy” book. His presentation was "Chewing the Fat: Atherosclerosis, Autophagy and Microscopy."

Dr. Teng-Leong Chew was previously the Director of the University Imaging Resources at Northwestern University and is currently the Director of the Advanced Imaging Center (AIC) at the HHMI Janelia Farms Research Campus. The AIC makes advanced imaging technologies developed at Janelia available to the scientific community before the instruments can be purchased commercially. Dr. Chew will provide information about super resolution microscopes available in the AIC and the procedures for accessing these instruments in his presentation “Accessing the Emerging Imaging Technologies at the Advanced Imaging Center, HHMI Janelia Research Campus.”