Michael Piacentino
Assistant Professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Piacentino is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with eight years of postdoctoral and research experience probing how lipid metabolism shapes cell signaling during neural crest epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and migration. Trained with an MA/PhD from Boston University and a lengthy postdoc in the Bronner Lab at Caltech, he combines developmental biology, molecular and cellular techniques, and embryology expertise across vertebrate models. His work bridges fundamental mechanisms of embryonic patterning and membrane lipid dynamics, with a niche strength in translating biochemical lipid pathways into cell behavior during development. Based in Baltimore, he maintains active engagement with the research community via ResearchGate and science communication on Twitter. Colleagues describe him as methodical and interdisciplinary, able to move between detailed molecular assays and broader developmental questions. An underappreciated asset is his background in anthropology and anatomy, which informs a comparative and integrative view of developmental processes.
7 years of coding experience
Course: Zebrafish Development and Genetics, Developmental Biology and Embryology, Course: Zebrafish Development and Genetics, Developmental Biology and Embryology at Marine Biological LaboratoryBachelors of Science, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Bachelors of Science, Anatomy and Cell Biology at McGill UniversityMA/PhD, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, MA/PhD, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Boston University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
statistics5
python4
data-visualization3
data-analysis3
data-science2
quantitative1
visualization1
bokeh1
matplotlib1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mpiacentino/data
Jun 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:89 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
PiacentinoLab/2022_PNAS_nSMase2_Endocytosis
Oct 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:1 release, 15 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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