Ishrat Zaman

Ishrat Zaman

Affiliation: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI)

Role: Image Analyst - Bioimage Analysis Core

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=a8F5m2QAAAAJ&hl=en

Website: https://www.wehi.edu.au/collaborative-centre/centre-for-dynamic-imaging/bioimage-analysis-core/

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ishratz25.bsky.social

Ishrat Zaman is a bioimage analyst in the Bioimage Analysis Core (BAC) at WEHI. With a background in both computational biology and wet-lab research, she collaborates with scientists across disciplines to extract meaningful insights from complex microscopy data. She has worked extensively with imaging-based spatial transcriptomics datasets from diverse tissue types, as well as whole-organ lightsheet datasets, with a particular focus on whole-brain imaging. Ishrat is passionate about neuroinformatics as well as bridging the gap between wet-lab experimentation and computational analysis, developing tailored analysis tools and reproducible pipelines that enable researchers to address complex biological questions!

Interests

  • Bioimage Analysis
  • Neuroinformatics
  • Spatial transcriptomics
  • HPC utilisation for image processing
  • Machine learning-based cell segmentation

Specialities

  • Python
  • HPC processing
  • Fiji
  • QuPath