Department News
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."
Student and Postdoc Seminar Series
Mar. 10, 2015—Monday, March 16, at noon in 206 PRB Lukasz Wylezinski of the Hawiger Lab will present “Interleukin 2 Dysregulation of the Blood Brain Barrier”
Peter Kropp an author of Laboratory Investigation paper
Mar. 9, 2015—Peter Kropp is an author on a paper in from the Gannon lab published in Laboratory Investigation.
Courtney Copeland is an author on a PLoS Pathogens paper
Mar. 9, 2015—Courtney Copeland had a paper from her rotation in the Dermody lab published in PLoS Pathogens.
Bethany Carboneau is an author on a AJP Endocrinology and Metabolism paper
Mar. 9, 2015—Bethany Carboneau is an author on a paper published by the Gannon lab in AJP Endocrinology and Metabolism regarding the proliferation of beta cells in mice while on a high fat diet.
Courtney Copeland in an author on a paper in Traffic from the Kenworthy lab
Mar. 9, 2015—Courtney Copeland is an author on a paper published in Traffic from the Kenworthy lab. The paper describes the function of myosin in membrane tubulation.
Adrian Cadar is an author on a Cardiovascular Research paper
Mar. 9, 2015—Adrian Cadar is an author on a Cardiovascular Reserach paper from the Lim lab.
Ashley Williams publishes in JBC
Mar. 6, 2015—Ashley Williams, a student in David Wasserman's laboratory, published a study in the Journal of Biological Chemistry showing that integrin signaling facilitates insulin action in the liver.
Student and Postdoc Seminar Series
Mar. 4, 2015—Monday, March 9, 2015 at noon in 206 PRB Guoliang Li, PhD, from the Neuert Lab presents "Non-invasive interrogation of signaling activated gene regulation”