Beta-cell Interest Group Affiliated Labs

Research Interests: Understanding the basic mechanisms regulating cellular longevity in health and metabolic disease

Research Interests: Characterization of the molecular mechanism of action of Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and determination of the structure-function relationships of the PGE2 receptors

Research Interests: Development of pancreatic islet vasculature and innervation; regulation of islet cell gene expression in processes controlling normal pancreatic beta cell function

Lab website: https://www.powersbrissovaresearch.org/

Research Interests: The sodium iodide symporter (NIS): structure, transport mechanism, regulation, and roles in physiology, pathophysiology and public health 

Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms controlling islet endocrine cell adaptation to insulin resistance

Research Interests: Understanding how nutritional and other environmental factors affect pancreatic islet cell function and proliferation

Research Interests: Cancer biology and cell signaling

Research Interests: Genetics of cardiometabolic diseases, with a particular focus on functional genomics and clinical translation

Lab website: https://medsites.vumc.org/fergusonlab/welcome

Research Interests: Genes that regulate beta cell differentiation, proliferation, and survival

Research Interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying beta cell production, function, and maintenance in the vertebrate pancreas

Research Interests: Determining how mechanisms that modulate islet calcium handling can be targeted to treat diabetes

Research Interests: Regulation of islet beta cell metabolism, function and cell architecture by microtubules

Lab website: https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/kaverina-lab/

Research Interests: Calcium signaling and pancreatic beta-cell failure

Research Interests: Cell-cell signaling in pancreatic development and pancreatic cancer

Research Interests: The regulation of insulin secretion with a focus on two proteins, G6PC2 and ZnT8

Research interests: Pancreatic islet biology: studies on development vascularization, and imaging and the potential for regeneration as a cure for type 1 diabetes

Lab website: https://www.powersbrissovaresearch.org/

Research Interests: Small RNA-mediated gene regulation in lipid and lipoprotein metabolism; microRNA communication and systemic homeostasis

Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms responsible for the coordinated development of complex organ systems