by sarahcmay | Sep 25, 2023 | Presentations
Mirmira Lab graduate student Kierstin Webster and postdoctoral fellow Jacob Enriquez presented at the Human Islet Research Network (HIRN) meeting held September 19-21 in Washington, D.C. Kierstin reported that “Human Islets Exhibit Sex Differences in...
by sarahcmay | Jun 21, 2023 | Awards, Presentations
Postdoctoral fellow Charanya Muralidharan received an Outstanding Abstract Award at the Endocrine Society’s ENDO 2023 meeting. The title of her talk was “Blocking the maladaptive integrated stress response increases immunosuppressive PD-L1 in pancreatic...
by sarahcmay | May 25, 2023 | Presentations
Kierstin Webster, an MD/PhD candidate in the Mirmira Lab, presented at the Midwest Islet Club meeting in Minneapolis on May 24, 2023. Kierstin emphasized that, although many autoimmune diseases are more prevalent in females, type 1 diabetes (or autoimmune diabetes) is...