Spencer Shorte's Biography

Spencer Shorte, Director, Institut Pasteur Imagopole

Professor (engineer) Spencer SHORTE PhD graduated (1988) in Biochemistry from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) and received his PhD (1992) in the same subject from Bristol University (UK). Expert in development of dynamic cell and tissue imaging techniques in living systems, worked in Europe and the USA before being appointed group leader at the Pasteur Institute in 2001 where he created the international imaging center Pasteur-Imagopole (www.imagopole.org). Today, the Imagopole infrastructure harbours four groups with expertise in microscopic, ultrastructural and cytometry based imaging technologies, and supports clinical translational research, combining advanced imaging technologies to address fundamental research questions in clinical paradigms relating to immunological and infectious pathologies.