2021 Seminar Series

Dec 17th, 2021: No seminar this week due to Winter closure

Dec 10th, 2021: Dr. Karen Mohlke, Oliver Smithies Investigator; Professor and Associate Chair of Research, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina: "Genetic effects on adipose gene expression and cardiometabolic traits"

Dec 3rd, 2021: Dr. Bethany Cummings, Associate Professor, College of Biological Sciences
University of California, Davis: "Understanding the Regulation of Alpha Cell Proglucagon Processing"

Nov 26th, 2021: No seminar this week due to Thanksgiving holiday

Nov 19th, 2021: No seminar this week due to the Stanford Diabetes Research Forum

Nov 12th, 2021: Dr. Urh Groselj, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: "Indicators of early mitochondrial dysfunction and insulin resistance in overweight/obese children and adolescents at OGTT"

Nov 5th, 2021: Dr. Elisa de Franco, Diabetes UK RD Lawrence Research Fellow, University of Exeter College of Medicine and Health: "Using gene discovery in rare disease to gain new insights into pancreas development and function"

Oct 29th, 2021: Katherine Connors, MPH, Manager, Research Participation, Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Research (Spectrum): "Stanford Medicine Clinical Research Participation Services, including use of Stanford Research Repository (STARR) Tools"

Oct 22nd, 2021: Dr. Shuibing Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College: "Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, Diabetes and Precision Medicine"

Oct 15th, 2021: Dr. Rayhan Lal, Assistant Professor of Endocrinology, Stanford University: "Open-Source Automated Insulin Delivery: International Consensus Statement and Practical Guidance for Healthcare Professionals"

Oct 8th, 2021: Dr. Paul Titchenell, Assistant Professor of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania: "Control of Hepatic Lipid Metabolism and Fatty Liver by Insulin Signaling"

Oct 1st, 2021: Dr. Shuvo Roy, Professor, Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco: “Building an Implantable Bio-Artificial Pancreas (iBAP)”

Sep 24th, 2021: Shiva Pathak, PhD, Meyer Lab, Stanford University: “Tregs for Tolerance Induction in T1D”

Sep 17th, 2021: Dr. Deborah Wiebe, Professor of Psychological Sciences, University of California, Merced: "Optimizing Self- and Social-Regulation for Emerging Adults with Type 1 Diabetes”

Sep 10th, 2021: Ewa Bielczyk Maczynska (Knowles Lab), Stanford University: "Discovering the role of G protein-coupled receptor 151 in metabolic health"

Sep 3rd, 2021: Dr. Rebecca Hull, Research Professor, Medicine; Director, Cellular and Molecular Imaging Core, University of Washington: "Impact of exocrine pancreas pathology on islet function and survival"

Jun 4th, 2021: Dr. Heiko Lickert, Director, Institute of Diabetes & Regeneration Research;
Technical University Munich (TUM): “Beta cell development, heterogeneity and regeneration”

May 21st, 2021: Dr. Alyce Adams, Professor, Stanford University: “Improving Equitable Health Outcomes in Diabetes: Catalyzing Transdisciplinary Scientific Collaborations to Transform Practice and Policy”

May 14th, 2021: Dr. Gozde Durmus, Assistant Professor, Stanford University: “Magnetic levitation of Adipocytes"

May 7th, 2021: Dr. Kyle Gaulton, Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego: “Genomic regulation of islet cell types and diabetes risk"

Apr 23rd, 2021: Danwei Huangfu, PhD Memorial Kettering Cancer Center: “Discovery of genetic and epigenetic regulators of development through genome-scale CRISPR screens in human pluripotent stem cells”

Apr 16th, 2021: Allan Reiss, Professor: “Improved Glucose Control Affects Brain Structure, Connectivity and Function in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes”

Apr 9th, 2021: Seema Dangwal, Instructor CVI: “Endothelial dysfunction in COVID19 associated organ damage”

Apr 2nd, 2021: Marcus Flisher (UC Davis): “Free-fatty acid receptor 4 (GPR120) inhibitory signaling in delta cells regulates islet hormone secretion in mice”

Caitlin Maikawa (Stanford Univ): “Polymeric excipients for improved insulin formulations”

Mar 12th, 2021: Mahla Poudineh (Soh Lab): “Continuous detection of glucose and insulin in live animals”

Mar 19th, 2021: Hunter Martinez (Bollyky Lab): “CD44v6 promotes Foxp3 regulatory T-cell homeostasis but is deficient in Type 1 Diabetes”

Mar 12th, 2021: Jonathan Long, Assistant Professor: “Molecular transducers and the cardiometabolic benefits of physical activity”

Mar 5th, 2021: Patrick MacDonald, Professor, Alberta Diabetes Institute: “Linking electrical function and transcript expression for insights into islet cell phenotypes in diabetes”

Feb 26th, 2021: Shiva Pathak (Meyer Lab): “Tolerance induction in islet transplantation”

Feb 19th, 2021: No seminar due to Insulin Birthday Celebration Symposium on 2/18/21

Feb 12th, 2021: Dr. Lawrence Kazak, Assistant Professor, Goodman Cancer Research Centre and Dept of Biochemistry, McGill University: "Towards a molecular understanding of thermogenic futile creatine cycling"

Feb 5th, 2021: Dr. Barak Blum, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health: "Robo receptors and their ligand Slit in morphogenesis and function of the islet of Langerhans"

Jan 29th 2021: Jing Li (Davis Lab): “Human KIR*CD8* T cells target pathogenic T cells in Celiac disease and are active in other autoimmune disorders and COVID-19”

Jan 22nd 2021: Yi Zhang (Chou Lab): “Insulin Engineering Using Surface Display“

Jan 15th 2021: Dr. Peter Reaven [Director, Diabetes Research Program; Professor of Clinical Medicine, U of Arizona]: “GLP-1 RA and atherosclerosis: human data at last”

Jan 8th 2021: Dr. Manuel A Rivas, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science: “Genetics of 35 biomarkers in a population cohort”