Sara Mcardle
Sr. Staff Scientist at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Mcardle is a Sr. Staff Scientist with nine years of hands-on experience running and evolving a microscopy core at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, specializing in intravital two-photon and confocal imaging of in vivo inflammatory mouse models. She advises on experimental design and sample prep, trains users across skill levels, and develops custom image-analysis pipelines in Matlab, CellProfiler, QuPath, and ImageJ to tackle complex quantitative problems. Her background in bioengineering (PhD, UCSD) and sustained core-management work includes grant contributions, super-resolution and single-molecule methods, and practical prototyping like 3D-printed solutions for lab workflows. An active practitioner who shares code on GitHub, she bridges microscopy hardware, experimental biology, and computational image analysis to accelerate reproducible discovery.
8 years of coding experience
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Science - BS, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York
Github Skills (27)
imagej10
qupath10
digital-pathology10
image-processing9
javafx9
groovy9
machine-learning8
wsi7
python7
opencv7
bam6
microscopy5
file-format5
java5
docstrings5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
saramcardle/PRESTO
Jun 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 11 months
prestolinuxstandalone
saramcardle/Image-Analysis-Scripts
Sep 2018 - Nov 2022
Various scripts written for image analysis utilities
Contributions:76 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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