Winter 2026 | ||
| DATE | SPEAKER(S) | TALK TITLE |
| Jan 16th | Liang Feng, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University | "Molecular mechanism of glucose transport" |
| Jan 23rd | Rachel Turn, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Mohammad Aziz-Zanjani, PhD Instructor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Baxter Laboratory, Stanford University | "Metabolic STAMP for deciphering GPCR-regulated insulin secretion by pancreatic β cells" |
| Jan 30th | Zhao Zhang, PhD Assistant Professor, Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | "Decoding Metabolic Disease by Forward Genetics" |
| Feb 6th | Andrea Tobais, MSc, PhD Instructor, Division of General Pediatrics, Stanford University | "Reducing Ultra-Processed Foods in School Meals: Evidence, Challenges and Policy Opportunities" |
| Feb 27th | Isha Jain, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco | "Turning the Oxygen and Vitamin Dials" |
| Mar 6th | Peter Jackson, PhD Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, and Pathology, Stanford University | "Primary Cilia as Metabolic Signaling Hubs in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: How Proteomics Translates Human Genetics into Mechanism" |
| Mar 13th | Eric Appel, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University | "Biomimetic Polymer Technologies for Improving Biologic Formulation and Delivery" |
| Mar 20th | Ryan Hart Ph.D. candidate, Huising Lab, Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology program, University of California, Davis | "Somatostatin Receptors Shape Insulin and Glucagon Output within the Pancreatic Islet through Direct and Paracrine Effects" |
Spring 2026 | ||
| DATE | SPEAKER(S) | TALK TITLE |
| Apr 3 | Amanda Cambraia, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University | "Calorie Restriction Up Regulates PD-L1 Signaling to Promote Beta Cell Longevity in NOD mice" |
| Apr 17 | Alice Bertaina, MD, PhD Lorry I. Lokey Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University | "Full Donor Chimerism to Eliminate Immunosuppression and Chronic Rejection in Solid Organ Transplantation" |
| May 1 | Weston Elison PhD Candidate, Biomedical Sciences, University of California, San Diego | "From Genetic Variation to Cellular Mechanisms in Diabetes and Fatty Liver Disease " |
| May 15 | Miwa Himuro, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar, Gregory Ku Lab, UCSF Diabetes Center | "CRISPR-Sec-MS: peptide barcoding strategy for pooled CRISPR screens for protein secretion" |