2020 Seminar Series

Dec 11th, 2020: Peter Gustafsson (Knowles lab): "A functional genomic approach to study NAFLD"

Dec 4th, 2020: Dr. Zachary Sellers, Instructor of Pediatrics: “Impact of Chronic Pancreatitis Beyond the Exocrine Pancreas”

Nov 16-17th, 2020: Frontiers in Diabetes Research Symposium

Nov 6th, 2020: Ella Thomson (Poon Lab): “Towards an Electrically Actuated Cell Based Artificial Pancreas”

Oct 30th, 2020: Dr. Christopher Gardner, Rehnborg Farquhar Professor of Medicine, Stanford University: Blood and guts (and organs): What the SDRC CTC has in its biorepository (and more) to get you the pilot data you need for your next grant application

Oct 23rd, 2020: Dr. Holger Russ, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado: “Interrogating (cell therapy) aspects of autoimmune diabetes using stem cell derived pancreatic and thymic cells”

Oct 16th, 2020: David Scheinker and Ramesh Johari - “Using telemedicine to do more with what we have, at Stanford and beyond”

Oct 9th, 2020: Katherine Wang (Chang lab)“Canagliflozin, Serum Magnesium, and Cardiovascular Outcomes - Analysis from the CANVAS Program”

Nazish Sayed (Wu Lab): “Use of human iPSCs to model T2D”

Oct 2nd, 2020: Sooyeon Lee (Annes Lab)“Mitochondrial Succinate Dehydrogenase Deficiency induces Age- and Diabetes- Related β-cell Dysfunction”

Mollie Friedlander (Kim Lab)"Examining mechanisms by which HNF1a deficiency leads to human diabetic phenotypes"

Sep 25th, 2020: Dr. Sally Kent (U Mass Med School): Insulitis in donors with type 1 diabetes”

Sep 18th, 2020: Dr. Eric Appel: “Is Excipient Science Boring? - New technology to break down barriers in insulin speed, dual-hormone co-formulation, and global access”

Sep 11th, 2020: Veronica Li (Long lab): “N-Lactoyl Phenylalanine as a molecular transducer of physical activity”

Gemma Zhao (Svensson lab): “Isthmin - a new glucoregulatory hormone”

Sep 4th, 2020: Chien-Ting Wu (Jackson Lab): “Ciliary GPCRs regulate glucose-stimulated insulin secretion"

Jen Ikle (Gloyn Lab): “CRISPR generated KATP channel mutation as a neonatal diabetes model in zebrafish"

SUMMER BREAK: Series will return in September via Zoom only.

Jun 26th, 2020: Jonas Fowler (Loh Lab): “A cellular toolkit for human immune system replacement”

Jun 19th, 2020: Dr. Ananta Addala: “Bridging the SES Gap: Strategies to Democratize Diabetes Care”

Jun 12th, 2020: No seminar due to ADA Scientific Sessions

Jun 5, 2020: Nicole Krentz (Postdoctoral Scholar): “Translation Genomics of Diabetes Group: Who we are and what we do?” [Introduction and Overview by Dr. Anna Gloyn (Research Advisor)]

May 29, 2020: Graham Barlow (Bollyky Lab): “A cellular toolkit for human immune system replacement”

May 22, 2020: Charles Chang (Kim Lab): “Advancing Islet Transplantation Through Bone Marrow Chimerism”

May 15, 2020: Pablo Paredes (Instructor of Radiology): “Don't Stick It Here, Stick It There: Receptiveness to eSkin Wearables for Stress Monitoring in Northern California”

May 8, 2020: Monther Abu-Ramaileh (Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering): “The metabolic basis of lysosomal dysfunction in neurodegeneration”

May 1, 2020: Romina Bevacqua (Seung Kim Lab): "Discovering the function of SIX2 and SIX3, beta cell transcription factors implicated in human diabetes risk"

March/April: Seminar series suspended through months of March and April

Feb 28, 2020: Dr. Linda Yip: “Gene expression analysis to identify dysregulated genes and pathways in the islets during the progression of disease in Non-obese diabetic mice”

Feb 27, 2020: Dr. Christopher Newgard: “Use of multi-omics tools for defining cardiometabolic disease mechanisms”

Feb 21, 2020: Alex Abramson (Bao lab): “An Insulin Pill That Delivers: Microinjections in the Gut”

Feb 12, 2020: Dr. Jorge Ferrer: “Diabetes caused by defects in the non-coding genome”

Feb 14, 2020: No seminar

Feb 7, 2020: Sandy Klemm (Greenleaf Lab): “Integrative epigenetic analysis of mixed phenotype acute leukemia at single-cell resolution"

Jan 31, 2020: No seminar

Jan 24, 2020: Jing Wang (Thakor Lab): “Pancreatic islet isolation and transplantation in rodent models"

Jan 17, 2020: Dessi Zaharieva: “Strategies to Optimize Blood Glucose Control During Exercise with Type 1 Diabetes”

Jan 10, 2020: Dr. Natalie Torok: “Diabetes and fibrosis progression in NASH”