Louise Cole is a plant and fungal cell biologist with over three-decades of microscopy experience. She carried out her Master’s degree at Oxford University investigating plant endocytosis and her PhD research at Oxford Brookes University studying the role of fungal extracellular matrices in plant host-pathogen interactions. In 1996, she came to UNSW to study the role of fungal pleiomorphic vacuoles in long distance transport. In 2001, she moved to USYD to apply her microscopy skills to investigate plant cell-cell communication. During 2004-6, she was the Light and Laser Optics Manager at EMU, USYD. From 2006-2017, she led the Advanced Microscopy Facility at the Bosch Institute. She moved to UTS in 2018 as Director of Microbial Imaging Facility. She is an expert in a wide-range of imaging modalities. She is President of the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society, has a passion for facilitating research, and teaching the next generation microscopists.