Assistant Professor, Biology
B.A. University of Guam; Ph.D. Rutgers University of Medicine and Dentistry
Appointed In
2025
Office
Bioscience 200B
Dr. Macabenta's research focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying collective cell behavior leading up to organogenesis. Through a combination of confocal microscopy and the vast array of genetics, cell biology, and molecular biology tools available to the Drosophila fruit fly model system, he seeks to uncover the gene regulatory networks that control cell fitness determination, intercellular communication, and collective migration leading up to the assembly of the larval midgut muscles.