Lucas Andrew Staehelin
plant biology researcher
Lucas Andrew Staehelin (February 10, 1939 – September 28, 2022) was a Swiss-American cell biologist. He was professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder.
He developed cryofixation methods and pioneered their use for preserving cellular structures for electron microscope studies. Application of these methods to the analysis of plant, animal and bacterial cells brought insights into the nanoscale architecture and functional organization of membranous organelles and cytoskeletal systems. Staehelin taught undergraduate and graduate courses in cellular and molecular biology at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Early life and education
Staehelin was born in Sydney, Australia on February 10, 1939. In 1948 he moved to Switzerland where he attended the Gymnasium in Bern. He studied natural sciences as an undergraduate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich from 1959 to 1963, where he earned his doctorate in plant cell biology in 1966, studying in the laboratory of Kurt Mühlethaler. From 1966 to 1969 he worked as a scientist at the Physics and Engineering Laboratory of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in New Zealand. He was a postdoctoral fellow from 1969 to 1970 at Harvard University.
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