Department News
MPB Student Selected Faculty Seminar
Apr. 27, 2015—Wednesday April 29th at noon in 206 PRB Anne Kenworthy, PhD, presents "What we learned by 'just looking': new insights into the biology of cell membranes in health and disease"
Dissertation Defense
Apr. 24, 2015—Friday, April 24 at 1:30 pm in 206 PRB Brian McKenna will defend his thesis work from Roland Stein’s Laboratory Investigations into Islet PDX1 Activity: Contribution to Mature β-Cell Identity and the Identification and Characterization of PDX1 Coregulators
MLI Program Candidate Seminar
Apr. 23, 2015—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”
Student and Postdoc Seminar Series
Apr. 23, 2015—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”
Student and Postdoc Seminar Series
Apr. 23, 2015—Monday, May 11 at noon in 206 PRB Clare Spielman of the Neuert Lab presents “Decoding the noncoding genome: Exploring the function of lncRNA-mRNA networks” and Nicholas Vierra of the Jacobson Lab presents “A Rheostat for Beta-Cell Excitability: TALK-1 Channels Tune Insulin Secretion Under Physiological and Diabetic Conditions”
Student and Postdoc Seminar Series
Apr. 23, 2015—Monday, May 18 at noon in 206 PRB Elizabeth Ferrick of the Emeson Lab presents “Physiological Roles of Kv1.1 RNA Editing: Implications for Episodic Ataxia Type-1”
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"