Anne E. Carpenter PhD

Anne E. Carpenter is an American scientist who has contributed to the field of image analysis for cell biology and is an expert in artificial intelligence for drug discovery. She received her Bachelor of Sciences in Biological Sciences in 1997 from Purdue University, West Lafayette. During this time, she spent a summer in 1996 as an HHMI Undergraduate Research Fellow in the laboratory of Robert E. Malone at the University of Iowa, working on the control of recombination in yeast. Following her graduation, she spent a summer working on enhancers in Drosophila neural development as a research assistant in the laboratory of Chris Q. Doe, then at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Carpenter carried out research for her Ph.D. in the laboratory of Andrew S. Belmont at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. There, she developed molecular biology and automated imaging systems to rapidly assess the effects of transcriptional activators on large-scale chromatin structure using fluorescence microscopy. This work laid the foundation for studies of engineered regions of the genome, the movement of genes within the nucleus upon gene activation, and chromatin-related high-throughput screens. She received her Ph.D. in Cell and Structural Biology in May 2003.

Carpenter trained in the laboratory of David M. Sabatini at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge MA, during her postdoctoral work (July 2003 to December 2006). Through co-mentoring by Polina Golland, professor at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Carpenter transitioned into a computational researcher during this time.