Education
He then earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Biophysics from University of California, San Francisco in 1994, under the direction of Doctor David Agard and Doctor John Sedat.
He then earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Biophysics from University of California, San Francisco in 1994, under the direction of Doctor David Agard and Doctor John Sedat.
Professor Swedlow received a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1982. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Doctor Tim Mitchison at University of California, San Francisco and then Harvard Medical School, Doctor Swedlow established his own laboratory in 1998 at the Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, as a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship in 2002 and named Professor of Quantitative Cell Biology in 2007.
In 2012, he was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Professor Swedlow"s research focuses on mechanisms and regulation of chromosome segregation during mitotic cell division and the development of software tools for accessing, processing, sharing and publishing large scientific image datasets. Professor Swedlow is has served as Faculty (since 1997) and Company-Director (2009 - 2014) of the Analytical & Quantitative Light Microscopy Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and participates as Faculty in the NCBS Bangalore Microscopy Course.
Professor Swedlow is married to Doctor Melpomeni Platani, and has two children, January and Lena.