Management team

San Francisco, USA

Nenad Amodaj, President/CTO

Prior to co-founding 100X Imaging in March 2008, Nenad has been with the Ron Vale’s Laboratory at UCSF since the summer of 2005, as lead engineer for the micro-manager.org project, sponsored by the Sandler Foundation. From 1999 to 2005 he served as the manager of the Cellular Imaging software group, at Axon Instruments and later at Molecular Devices. Nenad was a chief architect behind the development of the ImageXpress product line software: one of the first comprehensive High Content Imaging systems on the market. His 7-year tenure with Axon Instruments also resulted in contributions to other successful products: MultiClamp and Clampfit product families. Before permanently moving to United States in 1998, Nenad co-founded TehnoCAD, a computer aided design company. Nenad started his career on research projects in computer vision in medicine: intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and digital angiography. He holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade.

 

James Butler PhD, Director of Sales and Product Development

Before joining 100x Imaging in July 2009 Jamie was a Senior Applications Manager at Nikon Instruments. While at Nikon he managed microscope dealer sales relations and training, direct sales territories and microscopy sales training programs. Additionally, Jamie was the main liaison for Nikon’s Partner’s in Research program in the Western region, including the Nikon imaging Center at UCSF. Jamie also held direct confocal microscopy sales and dealer account management positions at Nikon during his tenure from 2004-2008. His research experience includes 6 years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1996-2002 where he managed the operations of the Subcellular Structure Group’s biophysical laboratory and developed quantitative optical microscopy systems and software incorporating fluorescence imaged microdeformation (FIMD) and electromagnetic force transduction (Magnetic Tweezers). Jamie received his M.S. and Ph.D in Biophysics from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and his undergraduate degree in Physics from Hamilton College.

 

Bangalore, India

Kaustubh Rau PhD, General Manager, Bangalore Office

Kaustubh joined 100x Imaging in June 2008. As a Fellow in the Young Investigator Program at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore from 2005-2008, he led an independant research program which focused on laser-tissue interactions. As part of his research he designed microscope platforms for time-resolved imaging of laser ablation events on the nanosecond to microsecond time-scale. He has also developed laser microbeam techniques for cellular transfection, in vivo microsurgery and single cell analysis. Kaustubh graduated from the Materials Science and Engineering program at the University of Florida in 2000. His postdoctoral training was at the Beckman Laser Institute at the University of California, Irvine. At 100x Imaging, he is interested in developing innovative, low cost technology solutions to the Indian research scenario.

 

Scientific Advisory Board

Ron Vale PhD, Professor and Chair of Pharmacology at UCSF, Investigator with the HHMI

Dr. Vale, the W.K. Hamilton Distinguished Professor, has been a member of the University of California, San Francisco faculty since 1986. He received his doctorate in neuroscience at Stanford University in 1985. Dr. Vale was appointed to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1995, and he also currently serves as the Chair of the Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology. Dr. Vale co-founded Cytokinetics, Inc., now a publicly traded company devoted to drug discovery based upon molecular motors and other cytoskeletal targets and the development of microscopy-based cellular informatics. Dr. Vale’s awards include the Pfizer Prize in Enzyme Chemistry, the Young Investigator Award from the Biophysical Society, election to the National Academy of Sciences, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has authored over 150 articles and serves on several journal editorial boards. Dr. Vale is best known for his work on molecular motor proteins. He discovered the kinesin superfamily of motors in 1985 and been a leader in understanding the biophysics, biochemistry and cell biology of this important class of molecular machines. Dr. Vale has pioneered the use of new microscopies, including single molecule fluorescence and high throughput microscopy, for studying protein function and cell biology.

 

Nico Stuurman PhD, Research Specialist with the HHMI

Dr. Stuurman has been a research specialist in Ron Vale’s laboratory at UCSF since 2001.  He graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a degree in Cell Biology in 1991, received Post-Doctoral training at SUNY Stony Brook, the BioZentrum in Basel (Switzerland) and was a staff scientist at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands).   Dr. Stuurman has authored more than 35 peer-reviewed articles.   He received a number of awards including an EMBO long term fellowship and a HFSP fellowship.  In addition, Dr. Stuurman was the leading force behind two Open Source software projects: Sidb (http://sidb.sf.net), a web-based microscopy image database and phplabware (http://phplabware.sf.net) a web-based laboratory database management system.