After completing his Ph.D. in the Biological Sciences at Fordham University, Larry spent three years as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Pathology Department at the Yale University School of Medicine developing immunocytochemical localization protocols. He is the co-author of works that have appeared in the Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, Experimental Cell Biology, Investigative Ophthalmology, Journal of Cell Biology and others. His current interests include teaching, educational technology and working with Dr. Joseph Faryniarz on a histology collection digitalization project for Human Anatomy and Physiology laboratories at Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury, CT where Larry is a full-time faculty member in the Science Department.

Marc obtained his BSc in biological sciences from the University of Namur in Belgium, in 1985.  He conducted research towards a Ph.D. in Biochemistry in the laboratory of Graham Warren at the University of Dundee, Scotland (1986-1988) and at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, England (1989-1992).  His first postdoc took him to the Biozentrum of Basel University, Switzerland, where he stayed 3 years, then he went back to Belgium for another 4 years at the International Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pathology in Brussels.  Marc joined the faculty at the Yale University School of Medicine in June 1999, where he directs the Electron Microscopy Facility in the newly-created Center for Cell and Molecular Imaging. His main research interest is the biogenesis of the Golgi Aparatus and the maintenance of its polarity throughout the cell cycle.

Treasurer
SECRETARY


Linda Chicoine, Ph.D.
11 Longate Road
Clinton, CT  06413
860-304-2477
lchicoine@snet.net

Linda has been a member of ConnMS for 15 years and an officer within the Society for 10 of those years.  She has served as President, Past - President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, Newsletter Editor and Website Manager.  Linda received her B.S. in Pathobiology from the University of Connecticut and her M.S. in Biology at Southern CT State University. She recently obtained her Ph.D. in Pharmacology/Neuroscience at the University of Connecticut.   Linda has spent 8 years at Yale University as a microscopist and another 6 years at Cognetix, Inc. doing research on cone snail venom for use as a therapeutic to treat chronic pain. Her current research interests lie in neurodgeneration and the ability of neurons to repair and prevent excitotoxic damage.

Past-President
2004 - 2005
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Derek Toomre
Department of Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
333 Cedar Street
P. O. Box 208002
New Haven, CT  06520
203-785-4319
derek.toomre@yale.edu
http://www.cellbiology.yale.edu/cellbio/html/resources/cinema.shtml

Derek Toomre is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at the Yale University School of Medicine.  He is also the director of the Yale "CINEMA" laboratory (Cellular Imaging Using New Microscopy Approaches). A major goal of his laboratory is to develop and apply state-of-the-art live cell microscopy methods to better understand the basic mechanisms of polarized membrane trafficking during cellular morphogenesis.