2010 Diabetes Center Research Seminars
January
Melissa Meucci-Calton, Graduate Student, Vaisse Lab
Rab23 deficiency causes an alteration in the central regulation of energy homeostasis
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Dimitri De Kouchkovsky, Undergraduate Student, Bluestone Lab
MicroRNA and T Cell Activation
1/7/10
Mark Anderson, Assistant Professor, Diabetes Center
Aire control of immune tolerance
1/14/10
Rik Derynck, Professor, Cell & Tissue Biology
Regulation of TGF-beta receptor presentation
1/21/10
James Gardner, Graduate Student, Anderson Lab
eTACs: Extrathymic Aire Expressing Cells
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Mahesh Yadav, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bluestone Lab
Autoimmune disease models in NOD mouse: From Diabetes to Neuropathy to Multiple Sclerosis
1/28/10
February
Takeshi Miyatsuka, Postdoctoral Fellow, German Lab
The chronology of islet differentiation
2/4/10
Gerald T. Nepom, Director, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle
Antigen-specific probes of T cell frequency and function in T1D
2/11/10
David Scheel, Staff Research Associate, German Lab
Rfx6 developmental duality: endoderm lineage and pancreatic islet specification
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Christopher Chiu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Hanahan Lab
Combined targeting of mTOR and EGFR in a mouse model of pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer
2/18/10
March
Todd Metzger, Graduate Student, Anderson Lab
Thymic selection in the Aire-DTR mouse
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Danielle Ulanet, Postdoctoral Fellow, Hanahan Lab
Insulin receptor knockout impairs tumor progression and overcomes resistance to IGF-1R targeted therapy
3/4/10
Zena Werb, Professor and Vice Chair, Anatomy
Role of the microenvironment in development and tumor progression
3/11/10
Mike German, Professor, Diabetes Center
Size matters: The physiology of beta-cell mass
3/25/210
April
Greg Szot, Cellular and Transplantation Laboratory, Technical Director
Long Term Survival of Human ES-derived Insulin Producing Cells in Immunocompetent Mice
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Kathryn Blaschke, Graduate Student, Santos Lab
Connecting germline reprogramming to iPS reprogramming
4/1/10
Amy Putnam, Research Supervisor, Bluestone Lab
Finally to the clinic (after 30 years of research): Human ex vivo Expanded CD4+127lo/-25+ Polyclonal Tregs for the Treatment of Recent Onset Type 1 Diabetes
4/7/10
Alka Kanaya, M.D, Assistant Professor, Diabetes Center
Diabetes in Asian American Populations
4/15/10
Stuart Smith, Assistant Researcher, German Lab
"Rfx6 directs the insulin production of mice and men"
4/22/10
Katherine A. Cunningham, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ashrafi Lab
Neurocircuitry of Serotonergic Feeding Regulation
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Samantha Bailey-Bucktrout, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bluestone Lab
Type 1 Diabetes; Away from the Bench, at the Bedside
4/29/10
May
Todd Brusko, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bluestone Lab
Eighty Percent of Success is Showing Up:Directing Tregs to the site of inflammation in Type 1 diabetes
5/6/10
Saleh Adi, M.D., Pediatric Endocrinologist, Diabetes Center
Type 1 Diabetes; Away from the Bench, at the Bedside
5/13/10
Denis Glenn, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Gardner Lab
Cardiac Lipotoxicity Expression of DGAT1 in the mouse heart
5/20/10
Melanie Stumph, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bluestone Lab
Dissecting extrinsic versus intrinsic functions of the immune regulator CTLA-4
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Cristina Penaranda, Graduate Student, Bluestone Lab
Effects of FcR non-binding anti-CD3 antibody
5/27/10
June
Ruth Taniguchi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Anderson Lab
The role of Aire in shaping the T cell repertoire against the autoantigen, IRBP, during negative selection
6/3/10
September
Mike Lee, Staff Research Associate
Dan Davini, Staff Research Associates, Bluestone Lab
Dennis Van Hoof, Postdoctoral Fellow, German Lab
Experience type 1 diabetes from the viewpoints of 3 type 1s
Q&A with two Type1 Diabetics
9/9/10
Suneil Koliwad, M.D.
Dietary Fats and Their Storage: Regulators of Inflammatory and Metabolic Function
9/16/10
Renee Vanderlaan, Graduate student, Hebrok Lab
Characterizing the adult pancreatic mesenchyme
9/23/10
Michael Waterfield, Clinical Fellow, Anderson Lab
Unraveling the transcriptional mechanism of Aire
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Matthew Hangauer, Postdoctoral Fellow, McManus Lab
Pooled RNAi screening approach to identify novel miRNA biogenesis factors
9/31/10
October
Tony K.T. Lam, Ph.D.
John Kitson McIvor Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research
Canada Research Chair in Obesity
Associate Professor, Departments of Physiology and Medicine
Diabetes and Obesity: Targeting the Gut and the Brain
10/7/10
Stephanie McClymont, Staff Research Associate, Bluestone Lab
Treg Plasticity: Characterizing “TH1” Tregs
Ashley Mahne, Graduate Student, Tang Lab
Regulatory T cell control of type 1 diabetes: Modification of the islet infiltrate
10/13/10
Fong Ming Koh, Graduate student, Ramalho-Santos lab
Role of Chd1 in regulation open chromatin during mouse embryonic development”
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Chester Chamberlain, Postdoctoral, German Lab
FGF signaling in pancreas development
10/21/10
Charles Harris, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine,
UCSF, Gladstone Institute for Cardiovascular Disease
Molecular Dissection of Glucocorticoid Action in Metabolic Disease
10/28/10
November
Edward Hsiao, MD., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Endocrinology, UCSF
Hormone Signaling in Mesenchymal Tissue Development
11/4/10
Hsiao-Huei Chen
Assistant Professor and Scientist
Centre for Stroke Recovery, University of Ottawa Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Neuroscience
"A novel neuronal modulator of fat metabolism"
11/12/10
Catherine Lee May, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
The role of Islet-1 in the endocrine pancreas
11/18/10
December
Karim Lee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Tang Lab
Regulatory T cell therapy in mouse islet transplantation
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Han Qin, Postdoc, Ramalho-Santos Lab
Genome-scale lentiviral shRNA library screening in human iPS cell generation process
12/2/10
Alice Liu, MD
Division of Endocrinology, Stanford University Medical Center; Stanford, CA
Health Management Resources Weight Management Program;
Staff physician, Palo Alto Medical Foundation; Mountain View, CA
Investigations in Adiposity, Insulin Resistance, and Beyond
12/9/10
Kaveh Ashrafi
Faculty UCSF
Why do mutations in Bardet-Biedl syndrome genes cause obesity?
12/16/10