Very excited to share our preprint on sex differences in beta cell in islet stress responses. An amazing collaboration with Jim Johnson, PhD led by our talented cosupervised student George Brownrigg biorxiv.org/content/10.110… /1

So happy to announce that Angela Dou did an amazing job defending her Masters thesis on the effects of cellular origin on immune cells as #pancreatic cancer develops. Thank you Jim Johnson, PhD for helping co-mentor this amazing student! Preprint coming soon!

Wonderful to see Aaron, Yi Han, and Howard Cen present their projects at UBCO Diabetes Research Day. Howard you’ve done a wonderful job of mentoring these talented undergrads.

Congratulations to Anni Zhang, Ph.D. on her PhD! Look out cancer field! Look out Stanford. Congrats to Janel Kopp on her first PhD student.

Congratulations, Dr. Howard Cen! A well-deserved opportunity to celebrate in regalia and in person, even if a year late. #UBCgrad

Congratulations all around, but most especially to the new Dr. Anni Zhang (Anni Zhang, Ph.D.)! #UBCgrad #UBCPhD #CancerResearch

Huge congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Rideout Elizabeth Rideout (@ejrideout.bsky.social), who has been promoted to Associate Professor as of July 1🎉🎉

The team of Jim Johnson, PhD lab has arrived in Stockholm for #easd2022 EASD! Please come to my talk "Proteome-wide mechanisms of hyperinsulinemia and sucrose-induced, tissue-specific insulin resistance" on Fri. 23rd, OP47, 11-12 (probably 11:00 -11:15) easd.org/virtualmeeting…

Excited and proud to be presenting my work at #EASD2022. I’ll be presenting my work on the targeting of Na+ channels for beta-cell protection and insulin secretion in diabetes. A big thank you to the organizer and Jim Johnson, PhD for giving me this opportunity.

Come attend my talk on the 20th of sep at 2:30 PM - 2:45 in the Nobel hall: PMhttps://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10613/presentation/912

Anni Zhang, Ph.D. EASD Jim Johnson, PhD Great work Anni!

Happy to be among some of my favourite colleagues at #EASD2022 . Always a wonderful meeting.

Peter Overby giving the 2nd of 4 talks from our group this week at EASD #EASD22

Congratulations Dr. Wang! He successfully completed his PhD defence today. I am so proud of Andy!! Thank you Hoodless Lab, Christopher Ong, @AminaZoubeidi, Timothy O’Connor, @nictitate, Murtaugh lab KMcNagny-Lab, Biomedical Miracles at work for serving on his committee!

New! Online now: Hyperinsulinemia acts via acinar insulin receptors to initiate pancreatic cancer by increasing digestive enzyme production and inflammation dlvr.it/SyC3xz

Excited to share our work “Insulin Receptor Loss Impairs Mammary Tumorigenesis in Mice“. Led by Lauren Podmore and Yekaterina Poloz, our study reveals a major function of INSR in breast/mammary tumour initiation, likely independent of its kinase activity.cell.com/cell-reports/f…

New from Janel Kopp ‘s lab and mine, and the final paper from our shared student Anni Zhang, Ph.D. ‘s ground breaking PhD thesis. Happy to co publish with Vuk Stambolic who has a complementary story in breast cancer in Cell Reports.

The final paper of three from our graduate student, Dr. Anni Zhang (Anni Zhang, Ph.D.) is now out in Cell Metabolism. Check out her excellent work showing that Insulin receptors in pancreatic acinar cells are important for KrasG12D-driven cancer initiation. cell.com/cell-metabolis…