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Mike Piacentino

@mikepiacentino.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Dept of Cell Biology, JHU SOM. Lipids and membranes in neural crest development. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈🐣🔬 piacentinolab.com

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Mike Piacentino @mikepiacentino.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Come join us! 🔬🐣 The Piacentino Lab at Johns Hopkins @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc to study membrane lipids, cell migration, and invasion in neural crest and embryonic models! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social #devbiol #cellbio #lipids
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Mike Piacentino @mikepiacentino.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I’m thrilled to share the first preprint from the Piacentino Lab @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social! We show that developing inner ear requires a secreted lipid chaperone, APOD, working in a positive feedback loop to amplify FGF/MAPK signaling. 👂 #DevBio Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Lipid-mediated reinforcement of FGF/MAPK signaling enables robust otic placode specification
The formation of cranial placodes requires groups of ectodermal cells to interpret inductive signals in a robust and organized manner, yet how signaling responses are coordinated across a developing f...
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Mike Piacentino @mikepiacentino.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We're #hiring! Our group in the Cell Bio Dept at Hopkins is looking for a Research Technologist to join us and study #neuralcrest #cellmigration during #devbiol! Looking to build up your lab experience? Check it out! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...
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Research Technologist
Research Technologist
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Mike Piacentino @mikepiacentino.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I'm so excited for #ICDB2025, it's looking like such a great meeting and I'm honored to share our work!
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Totally BOSS move: Harvard completely redid its home page to push back on the threats to research. 12/10 no notes www.harvard.edu
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Mike Piacentino @mikepiacentino.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I'm honored to receive the H.W. Mossman Award in Developmental Biology! Thank you @anatomyorg.bsky.social for recognizing our work toward understand how membrane lipids shape embryonic development, and I'm so excited to share our future discoveries!
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Mike Piacentino @mikepiacentino.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Anyone at #cellbio24 want to learn how an apolipoprotein organizes cell migration and sensory tissue specification in the embryo? Come check out my lab’s poster this morning 11:30am at board B391, or grab me any other time and I’d love to share! #neuralcrest #chicken @ascbiology.bsky.social
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Mike Piacentino @mikepiacentino.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Approaching 24 hours at #cellbio24 and already buzzing with new ideas!
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Welcome all (new) followers! Besides our work on probes & biosensors I'd like to share what I know about #Rstats and #DataViz. So I composed a book on data visualization with R & ggplot2 (it's work in progress). Target audience = wet lab scientists. Link: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...
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DataViz protocols
This is an introduction to data visualization protocols for wet lab scientists
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
It's #TransAwarenessWeek and I just want to say that I love all my trans friends and tweeps. We should all support them and embrace them, all year long, everywhere
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Mike Piacentino @mikepiacentino.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Hey #cellbio and #devbiol postdocs: are you working in #cell, #development, or #cancer #biology? My Department at the JHU SOM is hiring! Learn more about our community and see the job ad here: apply.interfolio.com/130523
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