About the Authors

David T. Moran, PhD

I became fascinated with the structure and function of cells and tissues when I was an undergraduate at Princeton University. That interest was further fueled at Brown University where, under the guidance of Professor Richard Ellis, a superb electron microscopist, and Professor Kent Chapman, a gifted biophysicist, I took my Ph.D. in biology.

When I gave a presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, Dr. Keith R. Porter invited me to become a Postdoctoral Fellow in his Cell Biology Laboratory at Harvard University. There, I continued my research on the ultrastructure of sensory systems.

When Dr. Porter moved West to become Chairman of the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado, he invited me to accompany him, and so I made the move to Boulder, Colorado. After working In Dr. Porter's lab in Boulder for several more years, I took a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Cellular and Structural Biology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

There, I taught Histology to the first-year Medical Students for twenty years. In addition to teaching, I ran a research laboratory that enjoyed twenty years of continuous funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). During that time, I and several colleagues founded the NIH-funded Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell Center, of which I served as Principal Investigator for three years.

In addition to publishing several hundred research papers, I authored several books and multi-media educational programs including the textbook, "Visual Histology", the slide-atlas, "Classic Histology", and the best-selling 26-program Visual Histology Video Series.

J Carter Rowley

Carter Rowley, born and raised in Colorado, took his B. S. in Biology at the University of Utah. There, he became an expert electron microscopist, and worked as a Researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Cynthia Jensen.

Several years later, Carter migrated to Colorado, where he joined forces with Dr. David Moran in their Laboratory of Sensory Neurobiology at the University of Colorado. He worked in Dr. Moran’s laboratory for over twenty years, co-authoring many scientific papers and presenting data at meetings, including the American Society for Cell Biology. Carter became an Instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, co-authoring many papers in the field of the ultrastructure of vertebrate olfactory systems.

In addition to his research activities, Carter became expert in Histology and co-authored the best-selling text-atlas, Visual Histology, as well as the Visual Histology Series, a group of 26 half-hour programs, both with David Moran.

Currently, Carter is President and COO of VisualHistology.com, a company dedicated to producing and distributing high-quality, state-of-the-art teaching aids for biomedical education.

When not at work developing new programs, Carter may be found out on the water, competing in one of several sailboat classes (he is an Olympic-caliber competitive sailor).