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Thursday, April 23rd at 1PM in 206 PRB Savannah Williams from the Cone Lab will present  “Identification of MC4R-specific Positive Allosteric Modulators that Inhibit β-arrestin Recruitment”… Read More

Monday, May 4 at noon in 206 PRB Andrea Hill of the Hasty Lab will present “The Role of NF-kappa B in Adipose Tissue Macrophage (ATM) Survival”… Read More

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”… Read More

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”… Read More

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… Read More

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”  … Read More

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."… Read More

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"… Read More

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"… Read More

  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”… Read More