Faculty Directory

Education

Degree	Institution	Major
Ph.D.	University of Colorado	Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
M.S.	Yale University	Biology
B.S.	Queen’s University	Biology

Post-Graduate Training

Training	Institution	Specialty
Professional Training	NIH	National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Traineeship
Fellowship	Lalor Foundation	Postdoctoral Fellowship
Post Doctoral	Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund
Post Doctoral	University of Connecticut Health Center	Department of Physiology

Awards

Name of Award/Honor	Awarding Organization
Osborn Biomedical Science Graduate Teaching Award Recipient	Graduate Student Organization
Postdoctoral Fellowship	Lalor Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowship 1984-1987	Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund
B. Sc. (Honours) with First Class Honours	Queen’s University
Predoctoral Traineeship 1977-1980	National Institute of Health

My general research interests center on understanding membrane organization, particularly the organization of structural and functional domains within the plasma membrane. A primary research project explores the development and maintenance of plasma membrane domains during mammalian spermatogenesis using biochemical techniques, high resolution light microscopy, and, in collaboration with Dr. Dennis Koppel, biophysical analyses such as fluorescence photobleaching. A second project involves an ongoing collaboration with Dr. Peter Setlow in the department to analyze the dramatic changes in membrane organization that occur during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.

As Deputy Director of the Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, I oversee our light microscopy user facility, which provides access to state-of-the-art instrumentation in high-resolution fluorescence microscopy to the general research community. The Center for Biomedical Imaging Technology is also home to the NIH-funded National Resource for Cell Analysis and Modeling (NRCAM). NRCAM develops tools for quantitative cell biology research. Our approach is to combine high resolution quantitative imaging and biochemical analyses with mathematical modeling to develop computational simulations of specific cellular events. NRCAM has created the “Virtual Cell” modeling environment, a tool for creating spatially realistic mathematical models of cellular processes using a web-based interface that is freely available to the academic research community.

Not accepting students for Lab Rotations at this time

Journal Articles

Conference Papers

Title or Abstract	Type	Sponsor/Event	Date/Year	Location
Talk Unknown	Talk	National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways All Hands Meeting	2007	Bethesda, MD
Booth at 2006 Annual Meeting Society for the Advancement of Chicano and Native American Scientists for student recruitment	Other	2006 Annual Meeting Society for the Advancement of Chicano and Native American Scientists	2006
Title Unknown	Talk	Howard University Workshop on Computational Cell Biology	2005	Washington, CT
Title Unknown	Talk	Northeast Spore Meetings,	2002	Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Title Unknown	Talk	Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, UCHC	2002
Title Unknown (cancelled due to 9/11 events)	Talk	Iowa Microscopy Society Meeting, University of Iowa	2001	Ames, IO
Confocal Demonstration and Tour for Avon High School students	Other	UConn Health Center	2001	Farmington, CT
Confocal Demonstration and Tour, UConn Clinical Engineering students	Other	UConn Health Center	2000	Farmington, CT
Confocal Microscopy Demonstration for students in Biological Structure Course at Wesleyan University	Other	UConn Health Center	1999	Middletown, CT
Title Unknown	Talk	Society for the Study of Reproduction Annual Meeting	1998	College Station, TX
Title Unknown	Talk	The Population Council, Center for Biomedical Research	1997	New York, NY
Photonics: Teaching Across the Spectrum	Talk	Conference for Science and Technology Teachers, University of Connecticut	1997	Storrs, CT
Confocal Demonstration and Tour, Science Teacher Onsite Visit	Other	Middletown High School	1997	Middletown, CT
CPTV’s Family Science Expo	Other	CT Public TV	1997	Hartford, CT
Targets for Contraceptive Development	Talk	NICHD workshop, NIH	1994	Bethesda, MD
Title Unknown	Talk	Loeb Institute, Civic Hospital,	1993	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Title Unknown	Talk	Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. University of Alberta	1992	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Title Unknown	Talk	Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts University School of Medicine	1992	Boston, MA
title Unknown	Talk	Department of Anatomy, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center	1991	Tuscon, AR
Fertilization and Activation of Development	Talk	Gordon Conference	1991	NH
Title Unknown	Talk	Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo	1990	Buffalo, NY
Title Unknown	Talk	Division of Reproductive Biology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center	1989	PA