Charles Boyd, PhD

Associate Professor of Biology

Dr. Boyd received his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990. After working in the Bay Area biotechnology sector for three years, he attended the University of California at Los Angeles and began studying the molecular genetics of flagellar regulation in the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus. He received his doctorate degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology there in 2000. In 2001 Dr. Boyd became an NIH postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Peter Novick’s lab in the Cell Biology Department of the Yale University School of Medicine, studying the dynamics of vesicle transport in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In 2005 he was a visiting assistant professor of biology at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, and was hired by AIC as an assistant professor in 2006.

Dr. Boyd teaches introductory biology, genetics, evolution, molecular biology, and cell biology. He lives in Cheshire, Connecticut, where he enjoys taking advantage of his years of experience working with yeast to brew his own beer.