Jennifer Waters received her B.S. in Biology from SUNY Albany in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Biology from UNC Chapel Hill in 1998. She taught courses in light microscopy and directed a core facility at Wake Forest University before beginning at Harvard Medical School in 2001. Dr. Waters was on the faculty of the Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA) from 2003 to 2010 and is a founding instructor in the Quantitative Imaging: From Cells to Molecules course at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, NY) which started in 2011.