Session II:
March 19, 2026, 11:00 AM EST
Life Science EM Research & Instrumentation
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Anna Lena Eberle
Anna Lena is product manager for ZEISS’ MultiSEM, the world’s first and fastest multi-beam scanning electron microscope, which is currently mainly utilized for connectomics. She obtained her doctoral degree in the neurosciences at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, where she has been applying multi-modal microscopy measurements to cross-validate quantitative investigations of the vascular system of rodent and primate brain. In her current position at ZEISS she is translating the needs of researchers into requirements for developers and ultimately into new products.
Francois Orange
François Orange is working as an engineer at the Centre Commun de Microscopie Apppliquée (CCMA), the electron microscopy facility of the Université Côte d’Azur (Nice, France), in charge of scanning electron microcopy. He is currently implementing new techniques for 3D visualisation of samples, such as array tomography or photogrammetry
Karine Prado
Karine received her PhD from the University of Montpellier, France where she studied the molecular and cellular mechanisms controlling the hydraulic properties of Arabidopsis thaliana rosette in response to environmental stresses. Then she joined the University of Edinburgh, UK as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. She studied the contribution of non-transcriptional mechanisms to biological timekeeping of the pico-alga Ostreococcus tauri and how light and thermo-sensitive phytochrome photoreceptors regulate chloroplast RNA processing and photosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. She then worked at Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA as a Senior Research Associate, she studied the mechanisms of thermoadaptation of a desert extremophile C4 plant to improve crops in response to increasing temperatures. She continues this project as a Research Specialist at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
Stephanie Nowotarski
Steph is Head of Electron Microscopy at the Stowers Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. She loves all imaging and earned her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Mark Peifer’s lab, using light microscopy and live imaging to understand actin cytoskeleton regulation in vivo. She then completed a postdoc with Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, applying room-temperature SEM, TEM, AT-CLEM, and SBF-SEM to investigate planarian regeneration.