David W. Piston

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David W. Piston is an American physicist. He is the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor and Head of Cell Biology and Physiology at Washington University School of Medicine. [1]

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Education

Piston completed a bachelor of arts in physics at Grinnell College in 1984. In 1986, he completed a master of science in physics at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He earned his doctor of philosophy in physics from the same institution in 1989. [2] He was a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Watt W. Webb at Cornell University from 1989 to 1992. [2] [3]

Career

In 1992, Piston joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University where his laboratory worked on pancreatic beta cells and then later alpha cells. [3] In 2010, he became president of the Microscopy Society of America. [4] In 2015, he was recruited to Washington University in St. Louis to serve as head of the department of cell biology and physiology. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "David W. Piston". alleninstitute.org. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  2. 1 2 "David W. Piston, Ph.D." cellbiology.wustl.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  3. 1 2 3 "Profiles in Biophysics - David W. Piston". The Biophysical Society. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  4. ↑ "MSA Past Presidents". Microscopy Society of America. Retrieved 15 April 2025.

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