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Student and Postdoc Seminar Series
Apr. 21, 2015—Monday, April 27 at noon in 206 PRB Bethany Carboneau from the Gannon Lab presents “Regulation of Beta-Cell Mass Expansion By Prostaglandin E2 Signaling” and Erica Pruett Anderson from the Cone Lab presents “Divergent Paths: Probing the Roles of G-protein and Kir7.1 Signaling in MC4R Function”
Student and Postdoc Seminar Series
Apr. 14, 2015—Monday April 20th at noon in 206 PRB Andrew Gordon from the Jayagopal Lab will present “Gold Nanorods as Optical Coherence Tomography Contrast Agents” followed by Peter Kropp from the Gannon Lab presenting “Control of Acinar Cell Fate and Identity Maintenance by Hepatic Nuclear Factor 6”
Peter Kropp is an author on a Laboratory Investigation paper
Apr. 11, 2015—Pekala, K.R., X. Ma, P.A. Kropp, C.P. Petersen, C.W. Hudgens, C.H. Chung, C. Shi, N. Merchant, A. Maitra, A.L. Means and M. Gannon. (2014). Loss of HNF6 expression correlates with human pancreatic cancer progression. Laboratory Investigation. 94(5), 517-527. PMID: 24638272
Student and Postdoc Seminar Series
Apr. 7, 2015—Monday, April 13 at noon in 206 PRB Christopher Reissaus from Dave Piston’s Lab presents “Rescue of Glucose Inhibition of Glucagon Secretion by Clustering of Islet Cells” and Leslie Roteta from Kasey Vickers’ Lab presents “microRNAs – a new player in the HDL-diabetes story”
Special Seminar
Apr. 3, 2015—Monday, April 6th at noon in 206 PRB John Lisman, PhD, Zalman Abraham Kekst Chair in Neuroscience, Professor of Biology, Brandeis University will present "Towards an understanding of the molecular basis of LTP maintenance: principles of stable information storage."
Dissertation Defense
Apr. 2, 2015—Friday, April 24th at 1:30 PM in 206 PRB Brian McKenna from the Stein laboratory will defend his thesis: "Investigations into Islet PDX1 Activity:Contribution to Mature β-Cell Identity and the Identification and Characterization of PDX1 Coregulators"
Guest Lecture Series
Apr. 1, 2015—Wednesday, April 8th at 11AM 206 PRB Note new time C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Chief Academic Officer, Joslin Diabetes Center, presents "New Pathways of Signaling by the Unoccupied Insulin Receptor"
Student and Postdoc Seminar Series
Mar. 31, 2015— Monday, April 6th at noon in 206 PRB Christian Marks of the Colbran lab will present "Reciprocal mGluR5-CaMKII Regulation" and Kristen Syring of the O'Brien lab will present "Exploring the Role of ZnT8 in Islet Beta Cell Function and Type 2 Diabetes”
Student and Postdoc Seminar Series
Mar. 24, 2015—Monday, March 30th at noon in 206 PRB Jordan Feigerle of the Weil lab will present: "Structure/Function Analysis of the General Transcription Factor IID Subunit Taf2"
Guest Lecture
Mar. 11, 2015—Wednesday, March 25th at noon in 206 PRB John Tsang, PhD, Chief, Systems Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit, Laboratory of Systems Biology, Director, Computational Systems Biology, Trans-NIH Center for Human Immunology will present "From whole organisms to individual cells: Utilizing natural biological variation to dissect the immune system."