BDC: Research In Progress

The DERC Research In Progress (“RIP”) Seminar Series Schedule

A part of the on-going training and research dissemination is weekly DERC RIP seminars at the Barbara Davis Center. Resident research scientists and invited speakers present current progress on diabetes and related topics. The DERC RIP is scheduled every Tuesday from 11am to 12 noon in the Main Conference Room on the 2nd floor of the Barbara Davis Center.

Date	Speaker	Title
9/22/2009	George Eisenbarth, MD, PhD, Professor, Executive Director, Barbara Davis Center	An Unfinished Journey - Type 1 Diabetes - Molecular Pathogenesis to Prevention
9/29/2009	Erin Baschal, Graduate Student Eisenbarth Lab, Barbara Davis Center	Exploring the MHC for "Predictable" Complex Diseases
10/6/2009	Maki Nakayama, MD, Fellow Eisenbarth Lab, Barbara Davis Center	Pathogenic T Cell Receptor Vα Sequences Encoding of Anti-Insulin Autoimmunity
10/13/2009	Pierre Pirot, PhD, Fellow, Hutton Lab, Barbara Davis Center	The Islet Glucose-6-Phosphatase Related protein (IGRP): an islet autoantigen involved in the regulation of plasma glucose concentration.
10/20/2009	Josh Thurman, MD, Assistant Professor SOM, Renal Medicine	Complement and Acute Kidney Injury
10/27/2009	Todd Grazia, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Immunology SOM, Pulmonary Sciences, Critical Care Med.	Autologous CD117+ Progenitor Cell Therapy Significantly Prolongs Cardiac Allografts Via Local T-cell Inhibition
11/3/2009	Jim Hagman, PhD, Associate Professor National Jewish Health, Immunology	Transcriptional and epigenetic control of B lymphocyte development and identity.
11/10/2009	Moshe Levi, MD Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics, Division of Renal Diseases & Hypertension, University of Colorado Denver	Role for FXR and TGR5 in Modulation of Diabetic Nephropathy
11/17/2009	Howard Davidson, PhD, Assistant Professor Barbara Davis Center	Cellular autoimmunity to zinc transporter 8 in type 1 diabetes.
11/24/2009	Roberto Gianani, MD Assistant Professor, Barbara Davis Center	The Search for Regenerating Beta Cells
12/1/2009	Aaron Michels, MD, Fellow Eisenbarth Lab, Barbara Davis Center	Targeting the Anti-Insulin Trimolecular Complexes with Small Molecules
12/8/2009	Li Zhang, MD, PhD, Fellow Eisenbarth Lab, Barbara Davis Center
12/15/2009	Ed Liu, MD, Assistant Professor Barbara Davis Center
Winter Break

For further information please contact Dr. Suparna Sarkar (email, x46849).

Funding for the DERC RIP seminars is provided by an NIH DERC grant: NIH-National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases UCD Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center ("DERC") P30 DK57516.

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