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THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

  • President:  Bruce Cochrane
  • Vice PresidentSheila Criswell
  • SecretaryCarol Bain
  • Treasurer:  Brendan Boyce

THE TRUSTEES

Currently there are 11 trustees of the Biological Stain Commission, along with 2 special advisors.  The special advisors to the Board of Trustees are Dr Natalie Garton (Leicester, UK) for microbiology and Dr Algy Kazlauciunas (Leeds, UK) for dye chemistry. 

Current Trustees are:

  • Carol Bain (Indianapolis, IN)
  • Brendan Boyce  (Rochester, NY)
  • Bruce Cochrane (Oxford, OH)
  • Sheila Criswell (Memphis, TN)
  • Brian Finkelman (Rochester, NY)
  • Maged Henary  (Atlanta, GA)
  • David Hicks  (Rochester, NY)
  • Richard Horobin  (Glasgow, UK)
  • John Kiernan  (London, Canada)
  • Lacey McNally  (Oklahoma City, OK)
  • Bradley Turner  (Rochester, NY)

Current trustees emeriti are:

  •        Richard Dapson  (Richland, MI)
  •         William Grizzle  (Birmingham, AL)
  •         David Penney  (Rochester, NY)
  •         Clive Taylor  (Los Angeles, CA)
  •         Sadly, Hans Lyon (Copenhagen, Denmark) died on 28th June 2018, and Stephen Nettleton (Louisville, KY) died on 2nd April 2024. Click on their names for obituaries and lists of their publications.

PUBLICATIONS

Biotechnic & Histochemistry

Editor-in-Chief:    Bradley M. Turner, MD (Rochester, NY, USA)

Associate Editor:  Richard W. Horobin, PhD (Glasgow, UK)

Assistant Editors:  Various, at present.

Editorial Assistant:  Wendy Gensheimer (Louisville, KY, USA)  Ed****@bi***************.org

Editorial Board:

  • Suleyman Aydin, Ph.D. (Elazýg, Turkey)
  • Carol Bain, D.V.M, (Indianapolic, IN, USA)
  • Zahra Bathaie, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Tehran, Iran)
  • Lalit Batra, Ph.D. (Louisville, Kentucky, USA)
  • Brendan F. Boyce, M.D. (Rochester, NY, USA)
  • Gerben Breimer, M.D., Ph.D. (Utrecht, Netherlands)
  • Bruce Cochrane, Ph.D. (Oxford, OH, USA)
  • Sheila Criswell, Ph.D. (Memphis, TN, USA)
  • Richard Dapson, Ph.D. (Richland, MI, USA)
  • Michael G. Drage, M.D., Ph.D. (Boston, MA, USA)
  • Brian Finkelman, M.D., Ph.D. (Rochester, NY, USA)
  • Jorge Gomez-Gutierrez, Ph.D. (Columbia, MO, USA)
  • William E. Grizzle, M.D., Ph.D. (Birmingham, AL, USA)
  • Helen E. Gruber, Ph.D. (Charlotte, NC, USA)
  • Maged Henary, Ph.D. (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
  • David G. Hicks, M.D. (Rochester, NY, USA)
  • Merrick Hope-Roberts  (Sheffield, UK)
  • Rie Ikeda, Ph.D. (Tokyo, Japan)
  • Kirby L. Johnson, Ph.D. (Boston, MA, USA)
  • John A. Kiernan, MB, ChB, Ph.D., D.Sc. (London, ON, Canada)
  • Evangelou Konstantinos, Ph.D., M.D. (Athens, Greece)
  • Kristine Krafts, M.D. (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
  • Moira Lewitt, MB, ChB, Ph.D., M.Med.Ed. (Paisley, UK)
  • Faqian Li, M.D., Ph.D. (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
  • Daniel M. Lombardo, M.V.Dr. (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  • Lacey R. McNally, Ph.D. (Oklahoma City, OK, USA)
  • Soren Nielsen (Aalborg, Denmark)
  • David P. Penney, Ph.D. (Rochester, NY, USA)
  • Robert S. Redman, D.D.S., Ph.D. (Washington, DC, USA)
  • Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, Ph.D. (Lawrence, KA, USA)
  • Juan C. Stockert, Ph.D. (Madrid, Spain)
  • Kerry Thompson Ph.D. (Galway, Ireland)
  • Paul J. van Diest, M.D., Ph.D. (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
  • Yongfu Wang, Ph.D.  (San Jose, CA, USA)
  • Haodong Xu, M.D., Ph.D. (Seattle, WA, USA)

Conn’s Biological Stains, 10th Edition.

ISBN 1859960995  Click here to read about this book.

LABORATORY OPERATIONS

The Biological Stain Commission’s laboratory in Rochester, NY is currently directed by Dr David Hicks and managed by Chad Fagan.

Sadly, Charles T. (Chuck) Willis (1929-2022), who retired in 2020 after nearly 61 years of service to the BSC, died on 17th December 2022. He joined the BSC’s laboratory in 1959 and replaced Mary Darrow, the technologist who had served the Commission under its founder, Dr Harold J. Conn, since 1937.  Charles (Chuck) J. Churukian (1928-2011), a distinguished histotechnologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center, made significant contributions to the functional testing of stains by the BSC.

(Last updated November 2024)