Steph Amici, PhD

Steph has worked in research for over 20 years. Her primary areas of study include cellular and molecular neurobiology and immunology. She received her undergraduate degree in Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology from Ohio State. She briefly worked in a research lab that was focused on bat echolocation and while it sparked her interest in research, she, sadly, did not use a microscope. However, that all changed during her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Florida, where she used fluorescent microscopy of Schwann cell and DRG-Schwann cell cocultures and transmission electron microscopy of sciatic nerves to study peripheral nerve biology. She continued imaging in her postdoc at OSU, using a spinning-disc confocal to localize nicotinic receptors in both live and fixed hippocampal neurons. She then worked in an neuroimmunology lab, where she gained extensive expertise in culturing and immunostaining T cells and macrophages for flow cytometry, but was also able to do a bit of confocal imaging. At the CMIF, she helps users in light and confocal microscopy, including live-cell imaging, as well as SIM, and transmission electron microscopy. She is enthusiastic about collaborating with others to help them achieve their imaging goals.