Diabetes caused by defects in the regulatory genome
Date: Friday, June 4, 2021, 12.00 –13.30Place: Zoom webinar
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Host: Helena Edlund / SRP Diabetes
ANDREAS HÖRNBLAD
Assistant Professor
UmeåUniversity
See presentation of Dr. Hörnblad on next page
Gene regulatory mechanisms in development and disease
JORGE FERRER
Professor
Centre for Genomic Regulation, (Barcelona), CIBERDEM, Imperial College London
See presentation of Dr. Ferrer
Dear All, our webinar series continues already next Friday June 4! We can offer you insights into the fascinating world of gene regulation in the pathology of diabetes and metabolic disorders – don’t miss Jorge Ferrer and Andreas Hörnblad:
Keynote talk:
“Diabetes caused by defects in the regulatory genome” by Jorge Ferrer (CGR Barcelona/CIBERDEM, Imperial College London)
“Gene regulatory mechanisms in development and disease” by Andreas Hörnblad(Umeå University)
Chair and host: Helena Edlund (Umeå University)
Attendance is free and open for everyone, and you are welcome to spread this invitation in your networks.
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Webinar Speakers
Jorge Ferrer (Professor @Centre for Genomic Regulation Barcelona, CIBERDEM, Imperial College London)
Professor Ferrer is chair in Genetics and Medicine, Head of the Section of Epigenomics and Disease, and Lead for Genetics and Genomics in the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre. He is also a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator. He received his medical degree and trained in Endocrinology in the University of Barcelona School of Medicine. He subsequently trained in genetics and transcriptional regulation in Washington University and Harvard University before returning to Institut d’Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, and CIBERDEM. He then moved to Imperial College London where he established a laboratory based at Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine. Since 2018, he is Senior Group Leader in Barcelona’s Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG).
Professor Ferrer is interested in understanding genome regulation of pancreatic beta cells and its implications for human diabetes.
Andreas Hörnblad (Assistant Professor @Umeå University)
Andreas Hörnblad obtained his PhD in Molecular Medicine at the Umeå Centre for Molecular Medicine (UCMM) in 2012, studying the biology of the developing and adult mouse pancreas using 3D microscopy (Optical Projection Tomography). During this period, he developed tools for spatial and quantitative analysis of protein expression and applied this to mouse models of the developing and diseased pancreas.
After his thesis work, he was awarded a postdoctoral grant within the Marie Curie/EIPOD program to join the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg (Germany). This work focused on investigating the function of putative regulatory enhancers in the development of the limb and the brain using extensive in vivo genome editing approaches (CRISPR/Cas9).
In 2017 he joined the lab of Prof. Helena Edlund (UmU) for a second postdoc investigating mechanisms of ß-cell stress in obesity and type 2 diabetes. From late 2018 he is a principal investigator at UCMM.
On behalf of Helena and SRP Diabetes:
Most welcome!
Stefan
Stefan Nobel | PhD, Programme Manager
The Strategic Research Programme in Diabetes (SRP Diabetes) at Karolinska Institutet
Adress: Karolinska Institutet | Integrative Physiology | Dept of Molecular Medicine and Surgery | Solnavägen 9 | Biomedicum quarter 4C | SE-171 77 Stockholm | SWEDEN
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