Members' Directory

Biography: 2005-present: Postdoc (Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, USA, working with Prof. Dr. Graham George, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, Subject: Sulfur X-ray absorption spectroscopy and Imaging on living cells)

2003 - 2005: Postdoc (NMR Department, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Group: Prof. Dr. Boelens/Prof. Dr. Kaptein, Subject: Allosteric Control of the Lac Repressor)

1999 - 2003: PhD Student/Postdoc (EXAFS Team, EMBL Hamburg, Germany, Group: Dr. Meyer-Klaucke as well as Institute of Physics, University Luebeck, Germany, Group: Prof. Dr. Trautwein, Subject: X-ray absorption spectroscopy of novel bacterial molyboproteins)

1993 - 1999: Master Student in Physics (University Kiel, Germany; Diploma in the Group of Prof. Dr. Maeder, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Subject: Microwave Spectroscopy of Trifluorosilane)

Biography: EDUCATION
1977-1983 Free University of Berlin, Germany
1980 "Vordiplom" in Biochemistry, Free University of Berlin, Germany
1982-1983 Practical work for the Diploma thesis at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot/Israel in the laboratory of Prof. J. Schlessinger on "Molecular Probes for the Investigation of the Epidermal Growth Factor-Receptor Complex".
1983 "Diplom" in Biochemistry, Free University of Berlin/Germany.
1983-1987 Ph.D. research in the laboratory of Dr. D.I. Meyer at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany on "Characterization of Membrane Proteins of the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum".
1987 Ph.D. in Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING
1987 Stanford University, CA (in the lab of Dr. Corey Goodman)
1987-1991 University of California at Berkeley, CA (in the lab of Dr. Corey Goodman)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1991-1998 Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Michigan, MI
1998- Associate Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan, MI
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Developmental and cellular neuroscience. My lab is investigating the function of neural cell adhesion molecules (especially members of the L1 family) during nervous system development. We are mainly using the embryonic/larval nervous system of Drosophila, as well as tissue culture approaches as experimental paradigms.

Biography: Ph.D in Physics (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) 1997
Postdoctoral experience: Germany, The Netherlands and USA.
Research topics: spectroscopical studies of structure of the metal moiety in proteins and enzymes and their bioinorganic model compounds: X-ray absorption (XAS). Simulations of the XANES region of the spectra.
Formerly: Mossbauer spectroscopy (Fe) and magnetic properties of fine and coarse soils fractions, geochemistry. Spin-phonon relaxation in nanoparticles and superparamagnetism.

Biography: B.Sc. Anatomical Sciences (1977) McGill University (Montreal)
M.S., Ph.D. Pathology (1984) Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York City)
IARC & EMBL Postdoctoral Fellowships (1984-86) EMBL-Heidelberg
NIH & ACS Postdoctoral Fellowships (1986-89) Univ. of California at Berkeley
Assistant Professor of Biology (1989-96) Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
Research Ass't Professor of Biology (1996-99) Dartmouth College
Visiting Research Scientist (1996-99) Columbia University (New York City)
Group Leader (1999-2003) Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH (Martinsried)
Senior Manager & Section Head (2003-2006) Sanofi-Aventis U.S. (Cambridge)
Lead Research Investigator (2006-2008) Sanofi-Aventis U.S. (Cambridge)
Assistant Director (2008-present) Sanofi-Aventis U.S. (Cambridge)

Biography: Dr. Jeremy H. Toyn is a Principal Scientist in the Neuroscience Biology department at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Wallingford, Connecticut, USA. He received his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry for studies carried out at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and University of California at Los Angeles. After a postdoctoral fellowship studying the cell cycle in yeast at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, UK, he joined Dupont Merck, which became Dupont Pharmaceuticals and was later acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2001. His work specializes in drug discovery for Alzheimer¡¦s disease, in particular the approaches targeting amyloid-ƒÒ metabolism. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Amercan Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the New York Academy of Sciences.