Gary Laevsky

Gary received his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from The University of Connecticut in 2003 and completed his post-doctoral research at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. Prior to joining the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton, he was the Product Manager (Super Res, TIRF, and confocal) for Olympus, a Senior Biosystems Applications Manager for Nikon (focusing on Super Res applications), and an Imaging Applications Specialist for Andor Technology.

Since coming to Princeton in 2013 as Director of the Confocal Imaging Facility, he has achieved the level of Senior Professional Specialist, the highest non-faculty level that can be achieved. He has also been selected to sit on the Committee on Appointments and Advancement for the Professional Researchers and Professional Specialists.

Gary is a co-founder of the North Atlantic Microscopy Society (NAMS), Course Laboratory Director for the Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy (AQLM) course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), and co-founder of the Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy (LSFM) Conference and Workshop, also at MBL.