Mary Mirvis, Ph.D.

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dr. Wallace Marshall at University of California, San Francisco. My work focuses on the structural, morphological, and biophysical features of organelles, how organelles interact in 3D space, and how these interactions ultimately create the distinct anatomical pattern of the entire cell. I use a combination of high resolution whole cell soft X-ray imaging data, quantitative morphometric analysis and modeling, and evidence and knowledge synthesis approaches to analyze and characterize cell anatomy. I am also interested in developing cell anatomy as a fundamental concept and research community, and more generally facilitating progressive cross-disciplinary dialogue and synthesis in mesoscale biology, by incorporating meta-science and philosophy of science perspectives of language, conceptual engineering, and interdisciplinarity.

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