Anne E. Carpenter

Anne Carpenter is the director of the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute. She has a strong background in cell biology, microscopy and computational biology. Her expertise is in developing and applying methods for extracting quantitative information from biological images, especially in a high-throughput manner.

Anne leads a team of computer scientists and biologists to develop advanced methods to quantify and mine the rich information present in cellular images. Her team helps biologists to apply these methods to significant questions in the biomedical sciences. She works across many of the Broad’s programs and platforms to test hundreds of thousands of samples by microscopy, helping to determine the functions of genes and to identify chemicals for use in research and as potential therapeutics. The imaging-based methods are implemented in the group's open-source software packages, CellProfiler and CellProfiler Analyst, and thus shared with the broader scientific community.

Anne earned her B.S. from Purdue University in 1997 and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003. During her postdoctoral work with David Sabatini at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, she was co-mentored by Polina Golland at the Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.