Full Name
Abhishek Kumar

Title
MBL Investigator and CZI Imaging Scientist

Abhishek Kumar Headshot
Contact Information
Education
Ph.D. Physics UMass Lowell, 2013
M.S. Physics Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, 2005
B.S. Physics and Math, B.H.U. Varanasi, India, 2002
MBL Affiliation
Location
Research Area

Dr. Abhishek Kumar is an MBL Investigator and Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Imaging Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). He is a physicist by training and his research interests are developing novel optical microscope systems and complimentary image analysis methods.

Selected Publications

Kumar A, Wu Y, Christensen R, Chandris P, Gandler W, McCreedy E, Bokinsky A, Col贸n-Ramos DA, Bao Z, McAuliffe M, Rondeau G, Shroff H. Dual-view plane illumination microscopy for rapid and spatially isotropic imaging. Nat Protoc. 2014 Nov;9(11):2555-73.

Kumar A, Christensen R, Guo M, Chandris P, Duncan W, Wu Y, Santella A, Moyle M, Winter PW, Col贸n-Ramos D, Bao Z, Shroff H.聽Using Stage- and Slit-Scanning to Improve Contrast and Optical Sectioning in Dual-View Inverted Light Sheet Microscopy (diSPIM).聽Biol Bull.聽2016 Aug;231(1):26-39.

Wu Y,聽Kumar A, Smith C, Ardiel E, Chandris P, Christensen R, Rey-Suarez I, Guo M, Vishwasrao HD, Chen J, Tang J, Upadhyaya A, La Riviere PJ, Shroff H.聽Reflective imaging improves spatiotemporal resolution and collection efficiency in light sheet microscopy.聽Nat Commun.聽2017 Nov 13;8(1):1452.

Ardiel EL,聽Kumar A, Marbach J, Christensen R, Gupta R, Duncan W, Daniels JS, Stuurman N, Col贸n-Ramos D, Shroff H. Visualizing Calcium Flux in Freely Moving Nematode Embryos. Biophys J. 2017 May 9;112(9):1975-1983.聽

Moyle, MW, Barnes KM, Kuchroo M, Gonopolskiy A, Duncan LH, Sengupta T, Shao L, Guo M, Santella A, Christensen R,聽Kumar A, Wu Y, Moon KR, Wolf G, Krishnaswamay S, Bao Z, Shroff H, Mohler WA, Col贸n-Ramos D. Structural and developmental principles of neuropil assembly in聽C. elegans.聽Nature, 2021,聽591,聽99鈥104.