Imaging the nanoscale structure of endocytosis with correlative super-resolution light and electron microscopy

Justin Taraska received his B.A. in biology from Reed College in 1999 and earned his Ph.D. in cell biology from Oregon Health and Science University in 2004 in the laboratory of Wolfhard Almers. He conducted his postdoctoral research in the laboratory of William Zagotta at the University of Washington during which time he received a Jane Coffin Child Memorial Fellowship. In 2010, Dr. Taraska became a tenure-track Investigator at the NHLBI. Dr. Taraska is a 2012 PECASE recipient, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. Dr. Taraska is a member of the Biophysical Society and the American Society for Cell Biology. He is also the co-director of the analytical and quantitative light microscopy course (AQLM) at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, MA.