Winter 2025 | ||
| Jan 10th | No Seminar | |
| Jan 17th | Yi-Chun Chen, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan | "Pam is critical for cilia formation and insulin secretion but promotes diabetes risk through beta-cell independent mechanisms" |
| Jan 24th | Jan Spaas, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar, Long Lab, Department of Pathology, Stanford University | "Vitamin B5 transport by diabetes-associated monocarboxylate transporter SLC16A13" |
| Jan 31st | Helge Raeder, MD, PhD Full Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen; Visiting Professor, Department of Genetics, Stanford University | "Decoding Diabetes: Insights from Genetic Research to iPSC Models and the Digital Future of Endocrinology" |
| Feb 7th | Yaohuan Zhang Graduate Student, Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley; Gregory Ku Lab, University of California, San Francisco | "The Role of CLIC-like Chloride Channel 1 in the Pancreatic beta-Cell" |
| Feb 14th | Phillip Dumesic, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco | "Regulation of energy metabolism through privileged mRNA translation" |
| Feb 28th | Juan Alvarez-
Dominguez, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania | "Chrono-energetics and Islet Maturation" |
| Mar 14th | Mayaan Levy, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stanford University | "Optimizing treatment responses using metabolic engineering" |
Spring 2025 | ||
| Mar 21st | Ishan Goswami, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley | "Micophysiological systems for modelling diabetes" |
| Apr 4th | Eddie James, PhD Associate Member; Principal Investigator, James Lab; Center for Translational Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute | "Generation of unconventional epitopes at the beta cell / immune interface" |
| Apr 11th | Keren Hilgendorf, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah | "Lean adipocytes secrete the oxylipin 9S-HODE to suppress breast cancer" |
| Apr 25th | Molly Tanenbaum, PhD Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University | "MindfulT1D: A pilot and feasibility study of a compassion-based virtual group program for adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D)" |
| May 2nd | Stefan Offermanns, MD, PhD Professor of Pharmacology, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim | "GPCRs regulating insulin secretion and vascular insulin sensitivity" |
| May 9th | Korey Hood, PhD Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University | "Automation and Devices for Diabetes Management" |
| May 16th | Paul Kwo, MD Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University | "Stanford Metabolic Disease Center" |
| May 23rd | Holger Russ, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Univeristy of Florida | "Transforming Type 1 Diabetes Research: Unlocking the Human Beta and Immune Cell Context Through Stem Cell Technology" |
| May 30th | Helena Safavi, PhD
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Adjunct Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, The University of Utah | "Nature-inspired drug leads for metabolic diseases" |
| Jun 13th | Shivani Misra, MD, PhD, FRCP FRCPath
Head of Section for Metabolic Medicine in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion & Reproduction, Imperial College London, & Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow | "Diabetes heterogeneity in diverse populations" |
Fall 2025 | ||
| Sep 12th | Tejal Desai, PhD Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, Professor, Department of Engineering, Brown University | "Tuning the "Structure" of Biomaterials:Implications for Cell-Based Therapy" |
| Sep 26th | Sally Kent, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School | "Islet-derived CD8+ T cells from donors with type 1 diabetes: function and reactivity" |
| Oct 3rd | Lay Teng Ang, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Stanford University | "Converting human pluripotent stem cells into hepatocytes to study BSL4 virology" |
| Oct 10th | Natalie Torok, MD Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University | "Diabetes and matrix remodeling in the liver" |
| Oct 17th | Annie Yue, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Vaisse Lab, University of California, San Francisco | "Molecular representation of peripheral energy levels by neuronal cilia" |
| Oct 31st | Michael Snyder, PhD Stanford W. Ascherman Professor, Department of Genetics, Stanford University | "Personalized response to food for metabolic health" |
| Nov 7th | Christina Gangemi, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University | "Sustained delivery of the GLP-1 receptor agonist liraglutide enhances islet engraftment and function in diabetes" |
| Nov 14th | Dimpi Desai, MD Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University | "The use of GLP-1 RA in Type 1 Diabetes" |
| Dec 5th | Patrick Jurney, PhD, FAHA Kordestani Endowed Chair and Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department, San Jose State University | "Holotomographic Microscopy and the Role of Cellular Organelles in Disease" |
| Dec 12th | Peter Zushin, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar, Joseph Wu Lab, Stanford University | "Novel Small Molecule Therapeutic Abrogates Pancreatitis and Preserves Islet Function" |
| Dec 19th | Phil Beachy, PhD The Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor, Departments of Urology and Developmental Biology, Stanford University | "Talk TBA" |