Barbara Davis Center Events and Announcements
Zachary Stensland, Awarded Diabetes Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic Year.
Zachary Stensland, Professional Research Assistant in Mia Smith's lab, has been awarded the recipient of the 2022-2023 Diabetes Center Fellowship. The award is made in recognition of Zach's past achievements and potential for future contributions to science. The fellowship includes $10,000 applied to the graduate program in addition to a $5,000 stipend. Congratulations Zach!
Lori Sussel, PhD. Awarded the 2020 Brownlee Visiting Professor Lectureship
Dr. Lori Sussel, Director of Basic and Translational Research at the Barbara Davis Center received the Brownlee Visiting Professor Lectureship at the Joslin Diabetes Institute, Harvard Medical School in recognition of her achievements in islet biology research. The visiting professor lectureship was established by family members and friends of the diabetes researcher Dr. Michael Brownlee and was awarded for the first time in 2007. Dr. Brownlee is Professor Emeritus at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Throughout his career he has made notable contributions to understanding the biochemical basis of diabetic complications. His contributions to the field have been extensively recognized, including the 2004 Banting Medal, the highest scientific award of the American Diabetes Association.
Maki Nakayama, PhD. Recipient of the 2022 George Eisenbarth Memorial Lecture at the 14th annual (Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors with Diabetes (nPOD) meeting
Congratulations to Dr. Maki Nakayama, the recipient of the 2022 George Eisenbarth Memorial Lecture at the 14th annual (Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors with Diabetes (nPOD) meeting. Dr. Nakayama was honored for her outstanding research program investigating insulin-specific T cell populations present in the islets of individuals with type 1 diabetes.
2022-2023 Speaker Series Schedules
Seminars will take place in person on Fridays at 12pm MT
All seminars will have a link provided for registration.
For administrative assistance: Christy Vasey, christy.vasey@cuanschutz.edu , 303-724-9787
| DATE | PRESENTER | AFFILIATION |
Friday, September 9, 2022 Fulginiti Pavilion | Bethany Cummings, DVM, PhD Associate Professor | Department of Surgery UC Davis |
| Friday, September 23, 2022 | Dirk Homann, MD Professor | Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai |
| Friday, October 7, 2022 | Sarah Lessard, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor | Joslin Diabetes Harvard Medical School |
| Friday, October 21, 2022 | Marissa Brissova, PhD Research Professor of Medicine | Director, Islet Procurement and Analysis Core Director, Human Islet Phenotyping Program of IIDP Vanderbilt University |
| Friday, November 4, 2022 | Rachel Bonami, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine | Division of Rheumatology and Immunology Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Friday, November 18, 2022 | Matthew L. Bettini, PhD Associate Professor | Department of Pathology Division of Microbiology and Immunology University of Utah |
| Friday, December 2, 2022 Fulginiti Pavilion | Todd Brusko, PhD Professor | Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine University of Florida Diabetes Institute (UFDI). |
| Friday, January 6, 2023 | Leonardo M.R. Ferreira, PhD Assistant Professor | Microbiology and Immunology Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology Medical University of South Carolina |
| Friday, January 20, 2023 | Rebecca L. Hull, PhD Research Professor | Director, Cellular and Molecular Imaging Core Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition University of Washington |
| Friday, February 3, 2023 | TBD | |
| Friday, March 3, 2023 | Hubert M. Tse, PhD Professor | Comprehensive Diabetes Center Heersink School of Medicine University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Friday, March 17, 2023 | BDC Diabetes Day Symposium Keynote Speaker: Mark Atkinson, PhD Professor | Director, UF Diabetes Institute Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics University of Florida |
| Friday, March 31, 2023 | Megan Levings, PhD Professor | Department of Surgery Lead, Childhood Diseases BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute |
| Friday, April 14, 2023 | Samuel Klein, MD Professor | William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science | Chief, Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science Washington School of Medicine in St. Louis |
| Friday, April 28, 2023 | Joana Almaca, PhD Research Assistant Professor | University of Miami Miller School of Medicine |
| Friday, May 12, 2023 | Denise Feig, MD MSc, FRCPC Professor | Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Health Policy, Management & Evaluation Head, Diabetes & Endocrinology in Pregnancy Program Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada |
Part of the on-going training and research dissemination includes weekly RIP seminars at the Barbara Davis Center, Anschutz Medical Campus. Resident research scientists and invited speakers present current progress on diabetes and related topics. The RIP is scheduled every Monday from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
| DATE | SPEAKER |
| 10th January, 2022 | Samantha Crawford, BS |
| 17th January, 2022 | Cancelled, MLK Day |
| 24th January, 2022 | Sarit Polsky, MD, MPH |
| 31st January, 2022 | Cancelled, nPOD meeting |
| 7th February, 2022 | James Costello, PhD |
| 14th February, 2022 | David Lorberbaum, PhD |
| 21st February, 2022 | Cancelled, President’s Day |
| 28th February, 2022 | Elliott Brooks, BS |
| 7th March, 2022 | Mark Ciccaglione, BS |
| 14th March, 2022 | Vira Kravets, PhD |
| 21st March, 2022 | Erin Cobry, MD |
| 28th March, 2022 | Alan Buser, BS |
| 4th April, 2022 | Angie Mitchell, PhD |
| 11th April, 2022 | Howard Davidson, PhD |
| 18th April, 2022 | James DiLisio, BS |
| 25th April, 2022 | Dustin Heiden, BS |
| 2nd May, 2022 | Holly O’Donnell, PhD |
| 9th May, 2022 | Xiaofan Jia, MD, PhD |
| 16th May, 2022 | Lucas Armitage, PhD |
| 23rd May, 2022 | Janet Wenslau, PhD |
Mondays @ Noon (12:00PM)
Via Zoom
https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/92263462343
Contact: Mia Smith mia.smith@cuanschutz.edu
Seminars for FALL will take place VIRTUALLY on Fridays at 12pm MT
Seminars for SPRING will take place both in person and VIRTUALLY on Fridays at 12pm MT
All seminars will have a link provided for registration.
Please Click Here to Register
For administrative assistance: Christy Vasey, christy.vasey@cuanschutz.edu , 303-724-9787
| Friday, September 10, 2021 | Michelle L. Litchman, PhD Assistant Professor | Medical Director, Diabetes One-Day Education and Care Program The University of Utah |
| Friday, September 24, 2021 | Ed Stanley, PhD Professor | University of Melbourne The Royal Children's Hospital |
| Friday, October 8, 2021 | Georgia Fousteri, PhD Group Leader | San Raffaele Diabetes Research Institute IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, ITALY |
| Friday, October 22, 2021 | Teresa Rodriguez-Calvo, DVM, PhD Junior Group Leader | Institute of Diabetes Research Helmholtz Zentrum München, GERMANY |
| Friday, November 5, 2021 | Peter Linsley, PhD Director | Center for Systems Immunology Benaroya Research Institute |
| Friday, November 19, 2021 | Wei-Jun Qian, PhD Laboratory Fellow | Biological Sciences Division Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Friday, December 3, 2021 | David Cherney, MD CM, PhD, FRCP(C) Professor | Clinician Scientist - Division of Nephrology University of Toronto |
| Friday, January 7, 2022 | Jon S. Odorico, MD Professor | Section of Kidney and Pancreas Surgery University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health |
| Friday, January 21 , 2022 | Alexander Marson, MD, PhD Associate Professor | School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco |
| Friday, February 4, 2022 | Sean W Limesand, PhD Professor | Director, Agricultural Research Center THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA |
| Friday, February 18, 2022 | Patrik Rorsman, BM, PhD, FRS, FMedSci Professor | Radcliffe Department of Medicine University of Oxford |
| Friday, March 4, 2022 | Kristin I. Stanford, PhD Associate Professor | Physiology and Cell Biology The Ohio State University College of Medicine |
| Friday, March 18, 2022 | BDC Diabetes Day Symposium Keynote Speaker: Massimo Pietropaulo, MD Professor | Medicine-Endocrinology Baylor College of Medicine |
| Friday, April 1, 2022 | Carol Levy, MD, CDE Associate Professor | Director Mount Sinai Diabetes Center and T1D clinical research Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai |
| Friday, April 15, 2022 | Emilyn Alejandro, PhD Assistant Professor | Integrative Biology and Physiology University of Minnesota |
| Friday, April 29, 2022 | Bret Goodpaster, PhD Scientific Director | Translational Research Institute AdventHealth |
| Friday, May 13, 2022 | Feyza Engin, PhD Assistant Professor | Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism University of Wisconsin-Madison |