Tribute to Robert Terry

c i d s o c I t s n e u m f M t Many have had the privilege of training or working nder Robert Terry. Although I never had this honor, Bob erry did have a decisive influence on my career. I first came into contact with Bob’s work while I was in elgium training under Professor Ludo Van Bogaert, a iant of European neurology and neuropathology. There I ecame fascinated with electron microscopy and soon began pending one afternoon a week in Brussels in the laboratory of octor Annette Résibois-Grégoire, who was an accomplished lectron microscopist of the nervous system and a big fan of obert Terry, as so many others were and are. It was during ne of those afternoons that I happened to read the landmark onograph on Tay-Sach’s disease published by the Journal f Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. My eyes, lready drawn to every image that appeared to be ultrastrucural, were captivated by those incredibly perfect microphoographs of the multilamellar bodies, the ultrastructural sigature of Tay Sach’s disease. At that moment, I decided that had to go to the United States to work and learn electron icroscopic (EM) neuropathology, possibly under Bob. So ff I went, but landed in the laboratory of James Robertson, he father of the unit membrane, who was at the McLean ospital at Harvard. There I did not learn much ultrastrucural neuropathology, but I did meet Lucila Autilio, who had ust joined the McLean from Albert Einstein in New York nd, of course, knew Bob. The determination to work with ob Terry was rekindled. One day we spontaneously drove o Albert Einstein to see Bob and explore the possibility of