Who is behind this company?
Hi! I’m Chris.
I’m the owner/founder/technician/troubleshooter/shipping&receiving/HR/complaints department.
I am, however, not the billing department.
That’s my spouse.
We are a two-person operation in Stratham, New Hampshire, USA.
Are you really independent?
Yup. We are not affiliated with any university or other business. We own all of the equipment needed to take your samples from wet samples to finished micrographs. This allows us to take on projects that no other labs can, as we do not have shareholders, stock prices, lab managers, or department chairs to worry about.
We do not disclose our clients.
What’s your background?
I fell in love with electron microscopy as an undergrad, having been able to take both scanning and transmission electron microscopy courses. After a short stint in vaccine manufacturing, I landed my dream job in a preclinical electron microscopy lab at one of the Big Pharma’s. I’d spend the next 20 years there.
Life happens, though. In 2025 I left Big Pharma, but my love of TEM didn’t leave me. Though a series of unlikely events, the concept of starting an independent lab became reality.
I am a Certified Electron Microscopy Technologist though the Microscopy Society of America. Certification #2022.
I am not a veterinary pathologist, though. While I am adept at normal/not normal, we are partnered with a experienced veterinary pathologist if a written diagnosis is required for your needs.
What’s with the name?
Choosing a name for a company in 2025 is a trick.
To have meaning, and to have a reasonable-length and memorable .com address, takes some thinking.
We are long-time owners of hounds; we have three now. While I was ruminating on the name of this not-yet-a-company one evening, our Bluetick Hound, Miss Sugar-May, was snoring and drooling on my leg.
Hound Dog TEM it was, then.
No, we do not need a doorbell at home.
Publications?
Bond K, Klokman G, Xu Y, Wu X, Schustak J, Mandelbaum J, Twarog M, Han H, Aihara F, Paulina MK, Coble M, Hayden C, Galarneau JR, Demirs JT, Qiu Y, Esterberg R, Huang Q, Prasanna G, Wilson CW, Saint-Geniez M, Aranda J, Bao Y. Double-Stranded RNA Induces Retinal Pigment Epithelium Cell Degeneration and Inflammation. FASEB J. 2025 Aug 31;39(16):e70786. doi: 10.1096/fj.202402181R. PMID: 40814782.
Hayden CM, Meseck EK. Transmission Electron Microscopy of the Retina: A Method for Sample Preparation and Evaluation. Toxicologic Pathology. 2020;49(3):521-527. doi:10.1177/0192623320954124
Omar Delgado, Erika Lima, Natasha Buchanan, Hui Li, Joanna Vrouvlianis, Barrett Leehy, Chad E Bigelow, Junzheng Yang, Jean-Rene Galarneau, Emily Meseck, Christopher Hayden, Stephen H Poor, Sha-Mei Liao; Overexpression of HTRA1 in mice compromises the extracellular matrix integrity in Bruch’s membrane and choroidal/retinal vasculature. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2019;60(9):1233.