David Shotton
ORG University of Oxford, UK
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David Shotton is a member of the Biological Sciences faculty at the University of Oxford, with particular interests in the use of time-lapse video microscopy for cell biological research. He is a founding partner of
the BioImage Database Project (www.bioimage.org), and is currently undertaking research into content metadata and query-by-content of biological videos. He received bachelor, masters and doctoral degrees in
natural sciences and molecular biology from the University of Cambridge during the late 1960s, and then worked as a cell biologist at Bristol University, the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard University, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, before moving to Oxford University in 1981.