Michelle Frei , PhD

Michelle Frei pursued her PhD studies in the lab of Professor Kai Johnsson at EPFL in Lausanne and MPI for Medical Research in Heidelberg. Her PhD involved synthesizing and characterizing photoactivatable probes for super-resolution microscopy and engineering the self-labeling protein tag HaloTag7 for fluorescence lifetime multiplexing. She continued her work in fluorescence lifetime multiplexing using synthetic organic probes. Michelle is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California San Diego in the lab of Professor Jin Zhang where she works on fluorescent biosensors for application in super-resolution microscopy.