A person with salt-and-pepper hair and beard wearing glasses peers into the eyepiece of an immunofluorescence microscope at a sample of mouse brain tissue.

Our department features a large number of state-of-the-art imaging modalities, ranging from the macroscopic to the microscopic and nanoscopic worlds. Our researchers apply these technologies to solve cutting-edge problems in neurobiology, cancer biology, plant biology, and microbiology, as well as cell and developmental biology.

Baker studies aging and dementia using neuroimaging, especially proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Her interests also include harmonization of tau positron emission tomography tracers and the effect of myelination, glymphatic clearance, neuroinflammation, and hormones on brain health.

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