Vance tartar

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Vance Tartar (born September 15, 1911 in Corvallis , Oregon , † June 16, 1991 in Ocean Park , Washington ) was an American biologist and embryologist . His main research focus was protistology (outdated protozoology), including important studies on morphogenesis , regeneration and structuring within the ciliate genera Stentor , Condylostoma and Paramecium .

Life

Tartar was the son of Herman and Stella Tartar. His father was a physical chemist and from 1945 and 1952 chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Washington . Vance Tartars began higher education at the University of Washington, where he studied zoology and received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1933, magna cum laude . In 1934 he obtained his master's degree, also in zoology. Influenced by Trevor Kincaid (1890-1975), the chairman of the zoological department, he then studied at Yale University . Under the auspices of his doctoral supervisor Lorande Loss Woodruff (1879-1947) he earned his doctorate in 1938 with a thesis on the regeneration of the paramecium to Ph.D. A postdoctoral year also followed at Yale University. In 1937 and 1938 he worked at the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington on the regeneration of the marine ciliate genus Condylostoma .

After leaving Yale University, Tartar worked for three years as a lecturer at the University of Vermont , where he taught zoology, ecology and entomology. From 1942 he took a biologist position for eight years at the State Fisheries Laboratory in Purdy , Washington, where he carried out research on the Pacific flat oyster ( Ostrea lurida ), among other things .

In 1948 Tartar met Emogean Saunders, whom he married in 1950. From this marriage there were three children. Together with Emogean's father, he built his new domicile, which he called "Aquaterre", near Nahcotta, only 200 meters from the Saunders residence. The couple lived here for 40 years.

From 1950 Tartar turned back to experimental protozoology, mainly cultivating trumpet animals ( stentor ). To this end, he set up a laboratory in a shed, which he called "Wits End" and which was later named "University of Washington Field Laboratory". In 1951 he applied for his first research fellowship at the American Cancer Society (ACS), the above growth Committee of the National Academy of Sciences has been awarded. Tartar came to Arthur W. Martin, the chairman of the zoological department at the University of Washington. He initially worked as a professional assistant, received his doctorate in 1954 as research assistant professor and in 1960 as research professor. From 1951 to 1957, Tartar received grants from the ACS. From 1957 to 1972 he received support from the National Institutes of Health . These grants provided him with a modest salary that Tartar and his family could live on while doing research. During a teaching stay at the Zoological Department of Indiana University Bloomington , Indiana in 1956, Tartar collected extensive literary material on the genus Stentor , on which he published the monograph The Biology of Stentor in 1961 . Tartar's other scientific excursions were shorter. These included a trip to the 14th Growth Symposium in Amherst , Massachusetts in June 1955 , where he lectured on the subject of "Pattern and Substance in Stentor" and a short course at the Summer Institute of Protozoology at Berkeley in 1966. He also lectured the annual meetings of the Society of Protozoologists (now the Society of Protistologists) in 1956, 1957, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1979 and 1980. In addition to his seminars and lectures at the University of Washington, Tartar developed an interdisciplinary developmental biology training program where he demonstrated the microsurgical methods he had developed in a laboratory workshop using video recordings . Tartar also made four trips to Europe. In 1961 he took part in the first International Protozoological Congress in Prague, in 1963 he attended the sixth International Embryological Conference in Helsinki. His third trip took him to the third International Congress of Protozoologists in Leningrad. In 1975 he finally demonstrated his stentor techniques in several European laboratories. In 1972 Tartar retired.

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SURNAME Tartar, Vance
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biologist and embryologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Corvallis , Oregon
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1991
Place of death Ocean Park , Washington