| 10:30 – 10:45 am |
JENNIFER PLANK ‘Investigating the role of Foxd3 in the pancreas’ |
| 10:45 – 11:00 am |
JEFFREY RAUM ‘MafA sequences spanning the conserved Region-3 drive islet beta-cell-specific transcription’ |
| 11:00 – 11.15 am |
YINGDA WANG ‘Long-Range Enhancers are Required to Maintain Expression of the Autoantigen IGRP in Adult Mouse Islets’ |
| 11.15 – 11.30 am |
TYE DEERING ‘The Protein Methyltransferase Set7/9 is Required for the Maintenance of Transcription and Euchromatin Structure at Islet-Enriched Genes’ |
| 11.30 – 11.45 am |
TAKESHI OGIHARA ‘Liver X receptor agonism augments glucose-stimulated insulin transcription and secretion in human islets’ |
| 11.45 – 12.00 am |
SHIN TSNUEKAWA ‘Glucose regulation of IRS-2 promoter activity in pancreatic beta cells’ |
| 12.00 – 12.15 am |
SHUANGLI GOU ‘MafA activity is regulated by phosphorylation’ |
| 1:30 – 1.45 pm |
LAURA ALONSO ‘Protein kinase C (PKC) z (zeta) activation is essential for glucose-mediated ฿-cell proliferation’ |
| 1.45 – 2.00 pm |
NATHALIE FLASCHI-TAESCH ‘Overexpression of cdk6, A Human Specific beta Cell Cdk, Induces Human beta Cell Proliferation and Promotes Engraftment and Function of Human Islets’ |
| 2.00 – 2.15 pm |
JEREMY LAVINE ‘Overexpression of cholecystokinin in isolated human islets stimulates beta-cell proliferation’ |
| 2.15 – 2.30 pm |
NORMAN BALCAZAR ‘Disruption of Tsc2 in pancreatic beta-cells induces ฿cell mass expansion and improved glucose’ |
| 2.30 – 2.45 pm |
ALEXANDER STOECK ‘Sequential Processing of betacellulin in pancreatic epithelial and beta-cells: implications for ErbB receptor independent signaling’ |
| 2.45 – 3.00 pm |
AMANDA ACKERMANN ‘Beta Cell Proliferation and Regeneration Following 60% Partial Pancreatectomy are Impaired in the Absence of FoxM1’ |
| 3.00 – 3.15 pm |
CHANG-ZHENG WANG ‘MIP-hDTR-GFP transgenic mice: A new model for studying beta-cell regeneration’ |
| 4:00 – 4.15 pm |
SIRI ATMA GREELEY – ‘Mutations in the Insulin Gene are a Common Cause of Neonatal Diabetes but a Rare Cause of Diabetes Diagnosed in Childhood or Adulthood’ |
| 4.15 – 4.30 pm |
RACHEL REINERT ‘Normal Pancreatic Islet Innervation Requires Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A (VEGF-A)’ |
| 4.30 – 4.45 pm |
JOHN DISHINGER ‘Measuring Single Islet Insulin Secretion in Parallel on a Microscale Device: Using Microfluidics to Study the Effects of the Leptin Signaling Pathway on Insulin Secretion’ |
| 4.45 – 5.00 pm |
CHRISTOPHER EASLEY ‘Quantitative measurement of zinc and insulin secretions from single pancreatic islets with high temporal resolution’ |
| 5.00 – 5.15 pm |
STEFANI EAMES ‘Genetically Targeted Calcium Indicator Facilitates Functional Imaging of Beta-cells in Live Zebrafish’ |
| 5.15 – 5.30 pm |
RICHARD BENNINGER ‘Gap junction communication in the pancreatic islet’ |
| 5.30 – 5.45 pm |
JAMES LOPEZ ‘Glucose Regulation of Cortical Actin through ERM Proteins in Pancreatic Beta Cells’ |
| 8.00 – 8.15 am |
WIEKE FREUDENBURG DE GRAAF ‘Role of Type I Interferons in the Induction of Immunoproteasomes in Beta-Cells’ |
| 8.15 – 8.30 am |
XIAOYONG LEI ‘Ceramides and their role in ER stress-induced beta-cell death: Implications for T1DM’ |
| 8.30 – 8.45 am |
CHRIS GREEN ‘Decreased Expression and Activity of Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase in Pancreatic Beta-Cells Increases the Susceptibility to Saturated Fatty Acid-Induced Apoptosis’ |
| 8.45 – 9.00 am |
MING LIU ‘Proinsulin misfolding and pancreatic beta cell failure’ |
| 9.00 – 9.15 am |
BENBO SONG ‘Genetic deletion of C/EBP homologous protein CHOP reduces oxidative stress, improves beta cell function’ |
| 9.15 – 9.30 am |
SAXENA GEETU ‘TXNIP-induced Beta Cell Apoptosis follows the Mitochondrial Pathway’ |
| 9.30 – 9.45 am |
WENBO YAN ‘B-EGF Deficient Mice Display Glucose Intolerance and Beta Cell Dysfunction’ |
