News from the Lab
November 2019: David gave a nice talk at the BMES annual meeting in Philadelphia.
October 2019: Jenn's and Nurin's manuscript detailing how GK heterogeneity and electrical coupling regulate islet function accepted to Biophysical Journal.
https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(19)30899-9
September 2019: Vira gave two great talks at the EASD annual meeting in Barcelona and at the Islet Society annual meeting in Maribor (Slovenia).
August 2019: Welcome to the lab rotation students Mark Ciccaglione (Bioengineering) and Samantha Payne Landgrave (Cell biology, Stem cells and Development)!
August 2019: Congratulations to Nikki Farnsworth as she starts her lab at Colorado School of Mines. We are sorry to say good bye, but look forward to seeing her exciting research progress involving islet - extracellular matrix interactions and cell death in type1 diabetes.
https://chemeng.mines.edu/project/farnsworth-nikki/
July 2019: JaeAnn Dwulet passes her comprehensive exam. Well done Jenn! Jenn can now continue to finish her PhD work on modeling and imaging islet cell heterogeneity and cell-cell communication
June 2019: Welcome to the lab Manal Yunes. Manal is a summer research student with the CU Boulder Biological Sciences Initiative.
June 2019: David Ramirez awarded NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship. Grew news! David will be applying sub-micron scale ultrasound contrast agents for diagnosing and tracking diabetes progression and therapeutic prevention.
June 2019: Richard Benninger concluded his term on the ADA scientific sessions organizing committee. Excellent meeting in San Fransisco and fantastic to have worked with Laura Alonso and Carmella Evans-Molina on this.
May 2019: Benninger Lab (with Aaron Michels, Agata Exner) awarded JDRF Innovation grant "Image-guided therapeutic targeting the islet microenvironment"
April 2019: Vira Kravets's abstract accepted for an oral presentation, Nikki Farnsworth's abstract accepted for poster presentation at the American Diabetes Association 2019 Scientific Sessions in San Fransisco.
February 2019: Nikki Farnsworth awarded mentored CCTSI pilot grant. Nikki will be developing functionalized biomaterials to study the role of islet-matrix interactions and beta cell death in type1 diabetes.
January 2019: Richard Benninger presenting at The European symposium on Ultrasound Contrast Imaging in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
December 2018: Nikki Farnsworth awarded JDRF advanced postdoc fellowship and Vira Kravets awarded JDRF postdoc fellowship. Great work!
https://ucdengineeringnews.com/2019/01/09/3917/
https://ucdengineeringnews.com/2019/01/04/kravets-receives-jdrf-postdoc-fellowship-award/
November 2018: Nikki's manuscript on GLP1R regulation of islet gap junction coupling accepted to Journal of Physiology.
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1113/JP276106
September 2018: Richard Benninger and David Ramirez on CBS describing their technology to track type1 diabetes
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/09/21/ultrasound-type-1-diabetes/
September 2018: Richard Benninger's review article with David Hodson, Guy Rutter and Craig Dorell accepted.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11892-018-1085-2
May 2018: Matthew Westacott awarded the Graduate School's Outstanding Dissertation award.
May 2018: David Ramirez successfully passes is comprehensive exam - well done!
May 2018: Josh St Clair's manuscript on contrast-enhanced ultrasound accepted to Nature Communications.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03953-y
April 2018: Welcome to the lab Wolfgang Schleicher. Wolf will be a Professional Research Assistant.
April 2018: David Ramirez's abstract accepted for an oral presentation at the American Diabetes Association 2018 Scientific Sessions in Orlando
January 2018: Richard Benninger's review with David Hodson on beta-cell heterogeneity accepted to Diabetes Journal
https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/67/4/537.long
October 2019: Jenn's and Nurin's manuscript detailing how GK heterogeneity and electrical coupling regulate islet function accepted to Biophysical Journal.
https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(19)30899-9
September 2019: Vira gave two great talks at the EASD annual meeting in Barcelona and at the Islet Society annual meeting in Maribor (Slovenia).
August 2019: Welcome to the lab rotation students Mark Ciccaglione (Bioengineering) and Samantha Payne Landgrave (Cell biology, Stem cells and Development)!
August 2019: Congratulations to Nikki Farnsworth as she starts her lab at Colorado School of Mines. We are sorry to say good bye, but look forward to seeing her exciting research progress involving islet - extracellular matrix interactions and cell death in type1 diabetes.
https://chemeng.mines.edu/project/farnsworth-nikki/
July 2019: JaeAnn Dwulet passes her comprehensive exam. Well done Jenn! Jenn can now continue to finish her PhD work on modeling and imaging islet cell heterogeneity and cell-cell communication
June 2019: Welcome to the lab Manal Yunes. Manal is a summer research student with the CU Boulder Biological Sciences Initiative.
June 2019: David Ramirez awarded NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship. Grew news! David will be applying sub-micron scale ultrasound contrast agents for diagnosing and tracking diabetes progression and therapeutic prevention.
June 2019: Richard Benninger concluded his term on the ADA scientific sessions organizing committee. Excellent meeting in San Fransisco and fantastic to have worked with Laura Alonso and Carmella Evans-Molina on this.
May 2019: Benninger Lab (with Aaron Michels, Agata Exner) awarded JDRF Innovation grant "Image-guided therapeutic targeting the islet microenvironment"
April 2019: Vira Kravets's abstract accepted for an oral presentation, Nikki Farnsworth's abstract accepted for poster presentation at the American Diabetes Association 2019 Scientific Sessions in San Fransisco.
February 2019: Nikki Farnsworth awarded mentored CCTSI pilot grant. Nikki will be developing functionalized biomaterials to study the role of islet-matrix interactions and beta cell death in type1 diabetes.
January 2019: Richard Benninger presenting at The European symposium on Ultrasound Contrast Imaging in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
December 2018: Nikki Farnsworth awarded JDRF advanced postdoc fellowship and Vira Kravets awarded JDRF postdoc fellowship. Great work!
https://ucdengineeringnews.com/2019/01/09/3917/
https://ucdengineeringnews.com/2019/01/04/kravets-receives-jdrf-postdoc-fellowship-award/
November 2018: Nikki's manuscript on GLP1R regulation of islet gap junction coupling accepted to Journal of Physiology.
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1113/JP276106
September 2018: Richard Benninger and David Ramirez on CBS describing their technology to track type1 diabetes
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/09/21/ultrasound-type-1-diabetes/
September 2018: Richard Benninger's review article with David Hodson, Guy Rutter and Craig Dorell accepted.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11892-018-1085-2
May 2018: Matthew Westacott awarded the Graduate School's Outstanding Dissertation award.
May 2018: David Ramirez successfully passes is comprehensive exam - well done!
May 2018: Josh St Clair's manuscript on contrast-enhanced ultrasound accepted to Nature Communications.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03953-y
April 2018: Welcome to the lab Wolfgang Schleicher. Wolf will be a Professional Research Assistant.
April 2018: David Ramirez's abstract accepted for an oral presentation at the American Diabetes Association 2018 Scientific Sessions in Orlando
January 2018: Richard Benninger's review with David Hodson on beta-cell heterogeneity accepted to Diabetes Journal
https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/67/4/537.long
Older news
Benninger Lab awarded JDRF Innovation grant to study contrast enhanced ultrasound detection of insulitis in type1 diabetes
Matt's manuscript accepted to Biophysical Journal
Nurin Ludin defended her MS - well done!
Matthew Westacott defended his PhD - well done!
Richard Benninger's tenure and promotion approved by the regents
Matt's and Nikki's manuscript accepted to Diabetes
Nikki and Josh's abstracts were accepted for oral presentation at the American Diabetes
Association 2017 Scientific Sessions in San Diego
Josh awarded NIH F32 Fellowship to study gap junction coupling and islet dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes
Aleena's manuscript accepted to PLoS Computational Biology
Matt awarded NIH F31 fellowship to understand the role of cell sub-populations in the islet using optogenetics
William and Samantha both receive UROP awards – well done!
Nikki's manuscript published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry
Aleena Notary defended her MS thesis - well done!
Richard had a poster at EASD
Nikki had a poster at ADA
Benninger Lab awarded second NIH R01 research project grant to study islet dysfunction in type2 diabetes
Benninger Lab awarded NIH R01 research project grant to study regulation of islet multicellular dynamics
Benninger Lab awarded pilot project grant from the Cooperative Study Group for Autoimmune Disease Prevention
Richard received the Biophysical Society's 2015 Young Fluorescence Investigator Award
Matthew passed his Comprehensive Examination - well done!
Richard's mansucript published in the Biophysical Journal
Chris Wilson defended his MS thesis - well done!
Nikki's manuscript published in the Journal of Physiology
Thomas and Matthew's manuscript accepted to PLoS Computational Biology
Benninger Lab awarded JDRF CDA grant to study islet dysfunction in type1 diabetes
Nikki awarded NIH F32 fellowship to study the mechanisms of cytokine-induced islet dysfunction
Nikki's review published in FEBS Letters
Thomas and Linda's manuscripts accepted to the Biophysical Journal and Diabetes
Benninger Lab (with Homann, Cambell-Thompson) awarded JDRF Innovation grant
Matt's manuscript accepted to Biophysical Journal
Nurin Ludin defended her MS - well done!
Matthew Westacott defended his PhD - well done!
Richard Benninger's tenure and promotion approved by the regents
Matt's and Nikki's manuscript accepted to Diabetes
Nikki and Josh's abstracts were accepted for oral presentation at the American Diabetes
Association 2017 Scientific Sessions in San Diego
Josh awarded NIH F32 Fellowship to study gap junction coupling and islet dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes
Aleena's manuscript accepted to PLoS Computational Biology
Matt awarded NIH F31 fellowship to understand the role of cell sub-populations in the islet using optogenetics
William and Samantha both receive UROP awards – well done!
Nikki's manuscript published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry
Aleena Notary defended her MS thesis - well done!
Richard had a poster at EASD
Nikki had a poster at ADA
Benninger Lab awarded second NIH R01 research project grant to study islet dysfunction in type2 diabetes
Benninger Lab awarded NIH R01 research project grant to study regulation of islet multicellular dynamics
Benninger Lab awarded pilot project grant from the Cooperative Study Group for Autoimmune Disease Prevention
Richard received the Biophysical Society's 2015 Young Fluorescence Investigator Award
Matthew passed his Comprehensive Examination - well done!
Richard's mansucript published in the Biophysical Journal
Chris Wilson defended his MS thesis - well done!
Nikki's manuscript published in the Journal of Physiology
Thomas and Matthew's manuscript accepted to PLoS Computational Biology
Benninger Lab awarded JDRF CDA grant to study islet dysfunction in type1 diabetes
Nikki awarded NIH F32 fellowship to study the mechanisms of cytokine-induced islet dysfunction
Nikki's review published in FEBS Letters
Thomas and Linda's manuscripts accepted to the Biophysical Journal and Diabetes
Benninger Lab (with Homann, Cambell-Thompson) awarded JDRF Innovation grant