Immunohistochemistry and Microscopy

Dr. Barroso is Assistant Professor at the Center for Cardiovascular Sciences, Albany Medical College. She received her Ph.D., in Genetics from University of Lisbon/ Gulbenkian Institute of Sciences, Oeiras, Portugal. She is an ad-hoc grant reviewer for University Grants Committee (Hong-Kong), ETH Zurich Research Commission (Switzerland) and Cancer Research and Wellcome Trust (UK), and NSF and NIH (USA). She has taught in several imaging courses, such as the FRET Microscopy Workshop at the Keck Center for Cellular Imaging (KCCI), UVA, and the EMBO course on “Light Microscopy in Living Cells” at the Institute Gulbenkian of Science, Oeiras, Portugal.

Additional honors include KCCI, FRET Microscopy Workshop, Scientific Advisory Panel, 2003; Confocal Microscopy and High-End Instrumentation grants S10 Review Panel (NIH ZRG1-CB F), 2006; Light Microscopy Shared Instrumentation NIH Study Section Meeting (ZRG1 CBD), 2005; Study Section Meeting for the NIH Director’s Roadmap Initiatives for Biomedical Science in the 21st Century “Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways” (2004 & 2005); NSF Cellular Organization Grant Review Panel (2001). She has been a consultant for patent litigation issues in imaging technology and has submitted two patents on FRET imaging technology to the US Patent Office.

Research interests include regulation of membrane trafficking in epithelial polarized cells, high-resolution analysis of membrane receptor organization, receptor-mediated cholesterol and iron transport and metabolism. Imaging technology interests include high-throughput screening and high-content imaging, automated quantitative FRET/FLIM, FRET biosensors, FRAP imaging, confocal, spectral and TIRF microscopy, quantum dots, quantitative tissue and cell imaging of cancer biomarkers.

Dr. Barroso belongs to the following scientific societies: American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB), Biophysical Society, Histochemical Society, and Sigma Xi. Since 2008, she is a member of the governing Council of the Histochemical Society.