Andrew York

My lab’s research focuses on using math, physics, engineering, and coding to make biological imaging faster, gentler, higher resolution, and more useful. My recent interests include structured-illumination microscopy, light-sheet microscopy, stimulated emission, two-photon microscopy, fluorescent probe development, localization microscopy, and terahertz imaging.

As a postdoc at the NIH, I invented the first optical superresolution microscope with no drawbacks, which works “instantly” and doesn’t require computation (you could view the image through eyepieces). I developed several other techniques, including a faster, much gentler alternative to spinning disk microscopy, and also “two-step” fluorescence, similar to two-photon imaging but with improved resolution and many orders of magnitude lower laser intensity.