Department News
Light Hall Renovations
May. 13, 2015—The renovations of the 8th floor of Light Hall are nearing completion on the west side. The MMPC renovation is nearly complete and may be complete within a month.
Student and Postdoc Seminar Series
May. 12, 2015—Monday, May 18 at noon in 206 PRB Elizabeth Ferrick from the Emeson Lab presents “Physiological Roles of Kv1.1 RNA Editing: Implications for Episodic Ataxia Type-1”
MPB Student Guest Lecture
May. 12, 2015—Tuesday, May 19th at noon in 206 PRB Deborah Muoio, PhD, Associate Professor in Medicine, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University, "Nutrient-induced mitochondrial stress in obesity and diabetes"
Dissertation Defense
May. 7, 2015—Wednesday, June 24 at 10:00 am in 206 PRB Kristie Aamodt, Alvin Powers’ Laboratory presents Macrophages and Endothelial Cells in the Pancreatic Islet Microenvironment Promote Beta Cell Regeneration
MPB Guest Lecture Series
May. 5, 2015—Wednesday, May 6th at noon in 206 PRB Jens C. Brüning, Ph.D. Max Plank Institute for Metabolism Research Köln, Germany presents Hypothalamic control of glucose homeostasis
Student and Postdoc Seminar Series
May. 5, 2015—Monday, May 11 at noon in 206 PRB Clare Spielman, Neuert Lab presents “Decoding the noncoding genome: Exploring the function of lncRNA-mRNA networks” and Nicholas Vierra, Jacobson Lab presents “A Rheostat for Beta-Cell Excitability: TALK-1 Channels Tune Insulin Secretion Under Physiological and Diabetic Conditions”
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