Cynthia Barber

Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Cynthia Barber
Cynthia has a PhD in Molecular Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently Senior Director Program Management of a Pharmaceuticals company in Boston. Cynthia is passionate about clinical development, and loves learning new therapeutic areas (experienced in HCV, cystic fibrosis, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, pain, type 1 diabetes, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and other neurology diseases).

Articles by Cynthia Barber

The Many Flavors of Widefield Microscopy

The Many Flavors of Widefield Microscopy

While confocal microscopy seems to have become pervasive in cell biology, widefield microscopy techniques still have a special and important place. This month on the Microscopy and Imaging Channel, we’re focusing on widefield microscopy techniques: covering the basics of what these techniques are and when you should turn to them. What is this ‘Widefield’ you…

DIY method for isolating yeast

STORM, PALM And fPALM- The Alphabet Soup Of Super-Resolution Light Microscopy

Why do I see a cloud? When you are looking at protein localization within a cell, have you ever wondered why you see a cloud of fluorescence rather that several individual fluorescent points? Well, light microscopy has a theoretical resolution limit of 200 nm. This means that in theory, to resolve two points as being…