David W. Piston
{{short description|American physicist}}
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.{{Cite web|title=David W. Piston|url=https://alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/cell-science/about/advisors/advisor-profiles/david-w-piston/|access-date=2020-11-19|website=alleninstitute.org}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://cellbiology.wustl.edu/People/Faculty/piston_d|title=David W. Piston, Ph.D.|website=cellbiology.wustl.edu|access-date=2018-12-10}} He was a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Watt W. Webb at Cornell University from 1989 to 1992.{{cite web|url=https://www.biophysics.org/profiles/david-w-piston |accessdate=13 October 2020 |title=Profiles in Biophysics - David W. Piston |publisher=The Biophysical Society}}
Career
In 1992, Piston joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University where his laboratory worked on pancreatic beta cells and then later alpha cells. In 2010, he became president of the Microscopy Society of America.{{cite web|url=https://microscopy.org/past-presidents|title=MSA Past Presidents|publisher= Microscopy Society of America|accessdate= 15 April 2025}} In 2015, he was recruited to Washington University in St. Louis to serve as head of the department of cell biology and physiology.
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External links
[https://pistonlab.wustl.edu/ Official website]{{Authority control}}
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