Background
Taatjes, Douglas Joseph was born on March 10, 1958 in Saugus, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph Francis and Jane Elizabeth (Mansfield) Taatjes.
Taatjes, Douglas Joseph was born on March 10, 1958 in Saugus, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph Francis and Jane Elizabeth (Mansfield) Taatjes.
Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences, U. Lowell, Massachusetts, 1980; Master of Science in Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, 1982; Doctor of Philosophy in Cell Biology magna cum laude, U. Basel, Switzerland, 1987.
Graduate teaching assistant department biological science, Kansas State University, Manhattan, 1980-1981; student research fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1981, 82; graduate research assistant department anatomy and physiology, Laboratory Ultrastructure Research Kansas State University, Manhattan, 1981-1982; research assistant department neurology, Baylor College Medicine, Houston, 1982-1983; research assistant Cardiac Research Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1983-1984; postdoctoral fellow department cell biology Bioctr., U. Basel, 1987; research associate, director electron microscopy department pathology, U. Vermont, Burlington, 1987-1989; assistant professor, director electron microscopy department pathology, U. Vermont, Burlington, since 1989; director cell imaging, U. Vermont, Burlington, since 1994.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Association Histochemists (Robert Feulgen prize 1989), Histochem. Society (Vector Young Histochemist award 1988), Microscopy Society American, Society Ultrastructural Pathology, American Society Cell Biology, New England Society Electron Microscopy (director biological science since 1994), Sigma Xi (undergraduate research award 1980).
Married Heidi SibillaSommer-Taatjes, January 8, 1983. Children: Joanna Sibilla, Andrea Jane.
