Heather Brown-Harding

@microscopyed.bsky.social

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Imaging Scientist at Harvard Center for Biological Imaging. I help people do cool science. Lover of all things microscopy & microbiology 🔬🦠

Smiling brown dog with one ear flipped back
Alex (basic, tall, white man 🤣) in front of a slide on noise
A SEM image of part of a caterpillar, unclear what part of the animal. It appears like a rope with fibers coming off.
Girl wear a pink England soccer jersey with matching shorts and socks
Rhino statue with a cone on its horn
A measuring tape and multi tool with ZEISS printed on it
Confocal scan head missing its casing sitting on a desk, not connected to a microscope
Screenshot from Yokogawa's conference citing statistics from the 2024 meeting. 25% Female Attendees is circled in pink
Nikon small world poster that takes up half the bulletin board and hangs several inches over the bottom
Print out of a red angry bird
Loaf of bread with paper that says "Greek Easter Bread from Kalliopi. Please help yourselves? (Not GF)"
Hawk on top of a coniferous tree
Sign that reads: Warning: Aggressive birds ahead. Hawk activity reported. Proceed with caution
Large snowflakes coming down outside my office window
Me standing in front of a BINA poster
Authorship and Acknowledgement Guidelines Authorship: "Payment for research services or staff assistance does not discharge investigators from their responsibility to consider core staff for authorship when producing a scholarly work..." Acknowledgment: "At a minimum, core facilities should be acknowledged whenever their equipment is used, services are provided, or staff contribute to the work..."
Badge with name, buttons with she/her and HCBI, ribbons with imaging and speaker
Graphs showing a piecewise fit vs a linear regression on 10 years of HCBI usage data
Badge reel with 3D logo of the HCBI printed on it with UV curable paint
From Pixels to Partnerships: Navigate Your BioImaging Journey with BINA poster on conference room table
Image taken out the backdoor of the house. Icicles are reaching door handles and snow drifts are covering Adirondack chair
Lego model of Glacios 2 Cryo-EM with booklet explaining the parts
Water on lab floor followed by image of microscope condenser with salt dried on
Doug Richardson standing in front of Glacios Cryo-EM, explaining how it works
My finger pulling back the wall of a chamber slide and it snapping back into the original position
Marzhauser Wetzlar joystick on a desk
70lh brown dog bouncing through 27" of snow
Brown dog wearing a green coat with face covered in snow standing in a pile of snow
Flyer for grand opening with structures of proteins along top of flyer. Text reads: Friday January 30th 2:00PM Microscope suite tours in LISE building 4:00PM Opening Ceremony in BioLabs 1080 Researhc talks by Gerardo Zavla and Marilina de Sautu
A lane in a small town with a few inches of slush
A starfish upside down under a stereo microscope
Long hallway cover from floor to ceiling with plastic sheeting. Pipes and wires are visible along the ceiling
Screenshot with my name highlighted. Text reads: Facility Marketing 2:45-5:45 Facilitators: Christopher W. Gregory, Heather Brown-Harding, Adriana Nunez, Austin Tagnani
Hand with bandages on 3 fingers
Heather wearing her red and green sweater with dinosaurs wearing Santa hats.
Picture of me in my office wearing a Wake Forest holiday sweater
Screen shot of the new "App" that has the HCBI black and rainbow shield with the words "Welcome to the HCBI Equipment Issue Reporters" and buttons for report problem and check status
3D black and white rendering of a deer tick, that rotates to different views
Fluorescent image of a female deer tick in black and white
Cloudy night sky with trees in the lower part of image
Image of northern lights with green at the horizon and purple/pinks higher up
Picture of Hannah Tam on the stage with her first slide titled "Mechanisms of Organ-Level Regeneration in Mammalian Skin"
So she operated the X-ray machine? That's like saying the mule is the farmer because it pulls the plow
Image of a hydroid with a black background and the sample in red/orange/yellow
GIF of hydra stretching and contracting in a rainbow of colors representing depth.
Microscope image showing a variety of rainbow "donuts" that are created by labeled proteins that create the divisional ring
Thermo Glacios 2 preparing for installation
Front angle of a rainbow T-Rex with 2 different sized arms
Picture of a CO2 tank with a wrench
Sample newsletter with Harvard Center for Biological Imaging on top. Areas to put News, Events, Member publications. On the side an area for "super user of the month" and an image for image of the month
Laser case with a tag reading $200k laser not a lab bench