STANFORD DIABETES WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES


Meeting Time: Every Friday, 12:00-1:00 pm

Meeting Location: Beckman 302, Developmental Biology Library

Winter 2025

Jan 10thNo Seminar
Jan 17thYi-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 24thJan Spaas, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Long Lab, Department of Pathology, Stanford University
"Vitamin B5 transport by diabetes-associated monocarboxylate transporter SLC16A13"
Jan 31stHelge 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 7thYaohuan 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 14thPhillip Dumesic, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco
"Regulation of energy metabolism through privileged mRNA translation"
Feb 28thJuan Alvarez- Dominguez, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania
"Chrono-energetics and Islet Maturation"
Mar 14thMayaan Levy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stanford University
"Optimizing treatment responses using metabolic engineering"

Spring 2025

Mar 21stIshan Goswami, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
"Micophysiological systems for modelling diabetes"
Apr 4thEddie 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 11thKeren Hilgendorf, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah
"Lean adipocytes secrete the oxylipin 9S-HODE to suppress breast cancer"
Apr 25thMolly 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 2ndStefan 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 9thKorey Hood, PhD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
"Automation and Devices for Diabetes Management"
May 16thPaul Kwo, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University
"Stanford Metabolic Disease Center"
May 23rdHolger 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 30thHelena 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 13thShivani 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 12thTejal Desai, PhD
Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, Professor, Department of Engineering, Brown University
"Tuning the "Structure" of Biomaterials:Implications for Cell-Based Therapy"
Sep 26thSally 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 3rdLay Teng Ang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Stanford University
"Converting human pluripotent stem cells into hepatocytes to study BSL4 virology"
Oct 10thNatalie Torok, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University
"Diabetes and matrix remodeling in the liver"
Oct 17thAnnie Yue, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Vaisse Lab, University of California, San Francisco
"Molecular representation of peripheral energy levels by neuronal cilia"
Oct 31stMichael Snyder, PhD
Stanford W. Ascherman Professor, Department of Genetics, Stanford University
"Personalized response to food for metabolic health"
Nov 7thChristina 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 14thDimpi Desai, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University
"The use of GLP-1 RA in Type 1 Diabetes"
Dec 5thPatrick 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 12thPeter Zushin, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Joseph Wu Lab, Stanford University
"Novel Small Molecule Therapeutic Abrogates Pancreatitis and Preserves Islet Function"
Dec 19thPhil Beachy, PhD
The Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor, Departments of Urology and Developmental Biology, Stanford University
"Talk TBA"