Personnel

Kedar Narayan, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, Group Leader

narayank@mail.nih.gov

Kedar Narayan leads the CCR volume EM (CvEMC) group. He has a Ph.D. in immunology and a background in chemistry, pathology, biophysics and software engineering. Kedar’s work focuses on developing emerging technologies for cellular imaging and deploying them to drive collaborative projects. At CvEMC, these include FIB-SEM, array tomography, electron tomography and correlative imaging, as well as powerful AI-based computational strategies.

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Melissa Mikolai, Ph.D.

Scientist

melissa.mikolaj@nih.gov

Melissa received her Ph.D. in biophysics from Purdue University with a focus on TEM. She specialized in using 3D EM techniques like electron tomography to study the changes to cellular organelles caused by viruses. She also did a post-doc at the NIH where she developed skills in cryo-electron tomography and cryo-FIB SEM. She focuses on the development and implementation of enhanced protocols for correlative imaging and vEM over a range of different resolutions.

Abhishek Bhardwaj

Research Associate

abhishek.bhardwaj@nih.gov

Abhishek works as a computational research associate with the CvEMC group. He is a graduate in Computer Science and his primary responsibilities involve image analysis, visualization and quantitation of microscopy data. He is focused on applications of AI to analyze and derive insights from complex datasets.

Beatriz Walter Rodriguez, Ph.D.

Scientist

beatriz.walterrodriquez@nih.gov

Scientific researcher with over 15 years of experience in microscopic anatomy, bioimaging, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Earned a PhD from Niigata University in the Department of Anatomic Microscopy and Bioimaging.
Following doctoral training, conducted translational cancer research at the National Cancer Institute, contributing to studies within the Tumor Immune Microenvironment (TIME) laboratory at the Center for Cancer Research and later in the Laboratory of Pathology. Work included implementing multiplex immunofluorescence immune panels to analyze tumor samples from patients enrolled in clinical trials and collaborating on multidisciplinary cancer research projects leading to scientific publications.
Research experience also includes microRNA profiling to identify molecular signatures associated with genitourinary malignancies and liquid biopsy approaches focused on isolating and characterizing extracellular vesicles from biofluids to investigate cancer biomarkers.

FCPS Seniors

Seniors from FCPS are teaming up to create “ground truth” data for vEM AI models.

2021

Patrick Friday (Research Associate) 

Taeeun (Hannah) Kim (Volunteer)

Ella Fitzgerald (Volunteer)

2020

Irene Chang (Scientist)

2019

Allison Baker (Post-bac, RA)

Patrick Acquino (WHK-SIP)

2018

Alexis Adkins (WHK-SIP)

Jacqueline Chung (WHK-SIP)

2017

Kiley Duncan (WHK-SIP)

Brandon Shim (WHK-SIP)

2016

Catherine Henry (Post-bac)