Collaborators
Patrick Gilon, UCL, Brussels, ER calcium imaging
Steve Baldwin, Leeds, ZnT8 modelling
Piero Marchetti, Pisa, Human islets
Paul Johnson, Oxford, Human islets
Domenico Bosco, Geneva, Human islets
Paolo Meda, Geneva, GLP-1R probes
Peter Arvan, Ann Arbor, Insulin processing
Israel Seckler, Ben-Gurion University, MCU and NCLX
Yuval Dor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LKB1
Jorge Ferrer, Barcelona and Imperial, Disallowed genes
Rory McCrimmon, Aberdeen, Brain AMPK
Tony Lam, Toronto, Brain AMPK
Walter Wahli and Bernard Thorens, Lausanne, PPARalpha
Constantin Polychronakos, McGill, Montreal, ZAC/PLAGL
Erik Richter, Copenhagen, MCT-1
Wen-hong Li, UTSW, Chemical zinc probes
Nicolas Long, Imperial, MRI probes for zinc
Chris Burns, NIBSC, London, iPS cells
Sabine Colnot, Institut Cochin, Paris, TCF7L2 null mice
Philippe Ravassard, Institut Cochin, Human EndoC beta cells
Dermot Cooper, Pharmacology, Cambridge, cAMP probes
Vincent Poitout, Montreal, PASK
Michael Wheeler, Toronto, ZnT8
Professor Mark McCarthy, University of Oxford
Mark McCarthy and Anna Gloyn, Oxford, Diabetes genes
Philipp Froguel, Imperial, GWAS genes
Dr. Dax Fu, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Professor Patrick MacDonald, University of Alberta
Queen Mary University of London
Michele Solimena, Universitaetsklinikum Dresden
Prof Mark McCarthy, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/principal-investigators/researcher/mark-mccarthy
Prof Anna Gloyn, University of Oxford
Prof Domenico Bosco, University of Geneva, Geneva
Prof Kyle Gaulton, University of California, San Diego
Maarten Merkx, Eindhoven, NL and novel zinc probes
Tania Maffuci, QMUL, Atypical PI3Ks
Guest Lectures
Can the genetic landscape of Type 2 diabetes tell us how pancreatic beta cells work?, Dorothy Hodgkin Lecture, Diabeters UK, APC, Manchester, UK, 2014
Regulation of beta cell function by LKB1, Gordon Conference, Mount Holyoak, New England, 2013
Zinc and zinc transporters as targets for imaging finctional beta cell mass, NIH Workshop on beta cell imaging, Bethesda, Maryland, 2013
GLP-1: a coordinator of beta cell activity in the islet syncitium, Diabetes UK APC, Manchester, 2013
Role of non-coding RNAs in beta cell metabolism and differentiation, EASD Islet Study Group, Islet Study Group Meeting, Rostock, 2012
Research Staff
Hodson,D
Johnston,N
Marmugi,A
Mousavy,M
Research Student Supervision
Bellomo,E, Divalent metal ions in pancreatic beta-cell function: role in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes
Johnston,N, Beta cell hubs dictate pancreatic islet responses to glucose
Mitchell,RM, Control of coordinated beta cell activity by secretagogues and diabetes genes
Sayers,SS, Role of the protein kinase LKB1 in pancreatic beta cells and intestinal L cells
Soedling,HS, Role of GLP1 and RIP2 neurons in the control of glucose homeostasis
Solomou,AS, Role of ZnT8 in the control of glucagon secretion
Sun,G, Roles of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and liver kinase B1 (LKB1) in controlling pancreatic islet hormone secretion