2017 - Distinguished Scientist Award, Mineralogical Society of America
2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2014 - Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America For pioneering contributions advancing the field of fluorescence microscopy and for dedicated service to the field of microscopy and to MSA.
2000 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For outstanding contributions to the development, application, and dissemination of quantitative spectroscopic methods to the imaging of proteins and small molecules, their environment, and their interactions within single living cells
His primary areas of study are Fluorescence, Biochemistry, Microscopy, Internal medicine and Endocrinology. His studies in Fluorescence integrate themes in fields like Luminescent Proteins, Fluorescent protein, Green fluorescent protein and Molecular biology, Cleavage. His research on Biochemistry often connects related areas such as Biophysics.
He has researched Biophysics in several fields, including Calcium, Electrophysiology, Protein–protein interaction, Förster resonance energy transfer and Quantum yield. His Microscopy research includes themes of Fluorescence microscope, Photobleaching, Two-photon excitation microscopy and Fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy. His Type 2 diabetes research extends to the thematically linked field of Internal medicine.
His main research concerns Internal medicine, Endocrinology, Biophysics, Cell biology and Insulin. His study ties his expertise on Receptor together with the subject of Endocrinology. David W. Piston interconnects Autofluorescence, Fluorescence, Förster resonance energy transfer and Protein–protein interaction in the investigation of issues within Biophysics.
David W. Piston combines subjects such as Green fluorescent protein, Luminescent Proteins, Biochemistry and Microscopy with his study of Fluorescence. His Microscopy study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Confocal microscopy, Fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy, Two-photon excitation microscopy and Fluorescence microscope. The study incorporates disciplines such as Cell, Calcium and Paracrine signalling in addition to Cell biology.
David W. Piston mainly focuses on Cell biology, Islet, Fluorescence, Glucagon secretion and Insulin. His Cell biology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Cell and Calcium. His Islet research also covers Endocrinology and Internal medicine studies.
The various areas that David W. Piston examines in his Fluorescence study include Luminescent Proteins, Spectroscopy, Biophysics, Biochemistry and Biological system. His study in the fields of Oxidative stress under the domain of Biochemistry overlaps with other disciplines such as Ribonucleoprotein. His Insulin study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Unfolded protein response, Endoplasmic reticulum, Wolfram syndrome and Homeostasis.
David W. Piston mainly investigates Cell biology, Islet, Pancreatic islets, Fluorescence and Secretion. His Islet research is under the purview of Insulin. His Insulin study combines Internal medicine and Endocrinology studies.
The concepts of his Pancreatic islets study are interwoven with issues in Oxidative stress, Biochemistry and Ribosomal protein. The Fluorescence study combines topics in areas such as Confocal microscopy, Biological system, Microscopy and Luminescent Proteins. In Intracellular, he works on issues like Biophysics, which are connected to Signal transduction.
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An improved cyan fluorescent protein variant useful for FRET.
Megan A Rizzo;Gerald H Springer;Butch Granada;David W Piston.
Nature Biotechnology (2004)
Use of the green fluorescent protein and its mutants in quantitative fluorescence microscopy.
G.H. Patterson;S.M. Knobel;W.D. Sharif;S.R. Kain.
Biophysical Journal (1997)
Fluorescent protein FRET: the good, the bad and the ugly
David W. Piston;Gert-Jan Kremers.
Trends in Biochemical Sciences (2007)
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) as regulators of dorsal forebrain development
Yasuhide Furuta;David W. Piston;Brigid L. M. Hogan.
Development (1997)
Ablation of PRDM16 and Beige Adipose Causes Metabolic Dysfunction and a Subcutaneous to Visceral Fat Switch
Paul Cohen;Julia D. Levy;Yingying Zhang;Andrea Frontini.
Cell (2014)
A bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) system: Application to interacting circadian clock proteins
Yao Xu;David W. Piston;Carl Hirschie Johnson.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1999)
Regulation of corepressor function by nuclear NADH.
Qinghong Zhang;David W. Piston;Richard H. Goodman.
Science (2002)
Photobleaching in two-photon excitation microscopy.
George H. Patterson;David W. Piston.
Biophysical Journal (2000)
Electron microscopy of whole cells in liquid with nanometer resolution
N. de Jonge;D. B. Peckys;G. J. Kremers;D. W. Piston.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2009)
Förster distances between green fluorescent protein pairs.
George H. Patterson;David W. Piston;B.George Barisas.
Analytical Biochemistry (2000)
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