Hey islet biology trainees (including but not limited to @cirtn.bsky.social members)! A-BC is coming up in February. We have extended abstract deadline to January 6th. For more info see website isletmeeting.weebly.com

Take a look behinds the sciences of our recent work!

An integrated analysis that combines electrophysiological and transcriptomic profiling, along with machine learning, of #islet cells from #T1D donors highlights the importance of α cell dysfunction @albertadiabetes.bsky.social @jci.org @bcellorg.bsky.social www.jci.org/articles/vie...

Worked with a great team to organize @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social Fueling #MASH : #Metabolic Drivers & #Inflammatory Crosstalk, this April! Join us to explore emerging research in Vancouver! keysym.us/KSMASH26 #KSMASH26 Early Registration and Abstract deadline is in less than 2 weeks!

At the @cirtn.bsky.social we had an absolutely fantastic opportunity to attend a session on working with industry from @danieljdrucker.bsky.social. This was one of the most informative and entertaining talks I've attended in ages, as he shared so candidly about the process.

It was a pleasure to attend the @cirtn.bsky.social workshop. I could not be more impressed by the incredible trainee presentations. And it was a special pleasure to present the first CIRTN Science Communication Award to three amazing scientists: Lahari Basu, Maria Galipeau and Cassandra Locatelli!

Our new paper is out now in Nature Communications! We uncovered the function of XBP1 in beta cells of a preclinical model of T1D and identified unique and shared gene regulatory networks driven by IRE1 and XBP1. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CIRTN-R2FIC is currently running in Toronto its 4th Annual Meeting. During this meeting we have launched our mini interview series called "Islets in a Pod" ! Our first interview is with Dr. Patrick MacDonald from the University of Alberta. youtu.be/UlHn_1Fz3ck?...

Islet Biologists in 🇨🇦 🏆 @cirtn.bsky.social

Excited to have the 2025 CIRTN meeting underway. Great presentation from Victoria Johnston in our lab (her first conference!!) @cirtn.bsky.social

Extraislet β cells are virtually absent in the human #T1D pancreas www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#glycotime 🧪

We are delighted to host the 2nd Annual Susie Clee Memorial Lecture this Thursday 4pm PST which will be given by Dr Melkem Kebede of the University of Sydney.

🩺❓What is medical misinformation? And how the heck does it spread so fast? Hear and discuss with our panel of experts about the current landscape of medical misinformation, and what practical, personal steps you can take to stop it. This event is virtual! Join from anywhere! RSVP: zurl.co/tZ8rW

Save the date for #GIA2026 (Nov. 5-6, 2026) which will feature free #glycotime talks by @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social , Dr. Mia Huang and more!

🎃 Happy Halloween! Enjoy some sweet, glucose-filled treats tonight—and speaking of glucose, meet Canada Excellence Research Chair Dr. Rebecca Hull-Meichle, who studies glycosaminoglycans in the pancreas 🧬. Catch her talk soon at GIA2025! @rlhull-meichle.bsky.social #GIA2025 #glycotime

🧵(1/7)We are now out of September🍁! From the last two weeks we have had publications from the CIRTN labs of Drs Jenny Bruin, Mourad Ferdaoussi, Peter Light, Patrick MacDonald, James Shapiro and Bruce Verchere!

Friday September 26 @uoftmedicine.bsky.social @sinaihealth.bsky.social The 2025 Gerard N Burrow Lecture. Professor Alvin Powers #islets #diabetes #T1D #T2D @vubasicsciences.bsky.social 8 am Mt. Sinai Join us!

Save the date for the 2026 A-BC Islet Biology meeting! Looking forward to many fantastic presentations by trainees in islet biology from all over Canada as well as great keynote lectures. Please share widely! isletmeeting.weebly.com

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of @diabetologiajnl.bsky.social Diabetologia - the flagship journal of @easdnews.bsky.social the European Association for the Study of Diabetes! Thanks to our colleagues at the American Diabetes Association and Diabetes Care AND it’s editor-in-chief - Steve Kahn

🧵(1/3) Our first post highlighting publications coming from CIRTN groups (first half of September 2025)! We have works from the labs of Drs. Marc Prentki, Timothy Kieffer and Mathieu Ferron. 1)“From β soloist to endocrine symphony: Subtype-complete islets conduct glucose harmony” PMID 40912231

The 2025 Claude Bernard Prize Awardee the brilliant Andrew Hattersley @exeter.ac.uk @easdnews.bsky.social #Genetics Scholar and gentleman #diabetes

My awesome Drosophila colleague Akhila Rajan at Fred Hutch (Seattle) is recruiting both a staff scientist and a postdoc to study fat–brain communication, innate immunity, mitochondrial signaling, and brain senescence. Great team, great environment. Apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30062/j...

Hello! Welcome to the CIRTN-R2FIC BlueSky account! Our group focuses on researching pancreatic islet biology and pathology related to islets such as type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Here you will find bi-weekly updates from the scientists from across Canada that make up CIRTN-R2FIC.

So proud to be celebrating @sekahn.bsky.social at his Banting Lecture at the ADA Scientific sessions

One more sleep

When they say "America first," they don't mention that this means America will be first among nations in preventable deaths.

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

🧪 arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

“Recruiting U.S. scientists is a fine idea – except we’re barely supporting Canadian scientists as it is” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/aaa9fec50b2b595cc0291494fc97e4bd10e7d6945d5c457e0bfa75d42846a705/4FRDBEKLNFESVJ3ZILAS36KR7Y

Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...

If you are a faculty member at a US university, please consider signing this excellent petition asking our presidents, chancellors, etc to work together to defend our institutions from the direct attacks by Trump administration: sites.google.com/view/we-must...

Dashboard updated jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... Two new council meetings to be posted Monday National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease Council NIDDK April 24 National Library of Medicine Board of Regents NLM May 13

ATTENTION If you are someone (or know someone) who is enrolled in an NIH-funded clinical trial that has been disrupted by grant uncertainties or terminations, please DM me. THANK YOU!

Ever wondered about who Michaelis and Menton were? Learn more here…

Come and work with us at the Alberta Diabetes Institute. We are connecting people with T1D and researchers to accelerate innovation to improve the lives of people with diabetes. We need a project lead to help us. apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...

#CellBiology research day! Getting us started is a presentation from guest speaker @olzmannlab.bsky.social on lipid homeostasis and ferroptopsis. @ualberta.bsky.social

An excellent opportunity! And I'm not just saying that because I'll be teaching an imaging and comparative retinal anatomy workshop during this course 😁 👀 Financial aid is available!

Seattle science colleagues (and friends): I hope you’re ready to see the awesome artistic skills (or lack thereof) on our lab’s posters at the science march tomorrow! Come for the science! Stay for your community!

A good listen for Canadians in academia paulwells.substack.com/p/a-crisis-o...

Today is a devastating reminder that infectious diseases don’t care what your ‘beliefs’ are. Everyone is likely to be affected directly or indirectly. Serious challenges require serious people at the helm. Protect your loved ones. Educate. Advocate. The cost of not doing so will be too much to bear.

Nice to see this study out in print! One more piece of the puzzle in unraveling what’s going on in the CF pancreas.

A few updates and clarifications A slow but steady stream of NoAs are being reported to me. NIH grants management specialists are clearly back to work getting awards out the door, both for scientist's sake and for their own. 1/n

#abc2025, one of my most favourite meetings of the year! Fantastic trainee talks so far as usual!

For those out there that do hESC work and haven't looked at the project2025 document, a heads up that can be found on page 460. Plan accordingly static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...

It’s been a busy start to the year. Today our team is working on their 4th human islet isolation so far in 2025. Pancreas and islet tissue in support of #diabetes #research We anticipate room to grow our user base in the coming years. Sign-up for our distribution list here: www.bcell.org/faqs.html

Re-upping this paper which is ‘out’ now in this month’s issue of Cell Metab. Working with a fantastic group of collaborators, we provide a resource for exploring human islet variation in health and diabetes. https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(24)00365-6

Congrats Xiong! Great work adding another piece to the puzzle of regulated glucagon secretion.

We did a thing! Our first human islet isolation at Michigan by @cortig.bsky.social in partnership with our wonderful friends in the Alberta IsletCore @bcellorg.bsky.social. Excited for this to be the first of many to support diabetes research! 🤩

ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac... We are looking for an imaging master to run a very cool shared microscope - Raman label-free, 2-photon, FLIM, high-res, fast capture, thick live tissue, organoids, high-content screening. We are a dynamic and supportive and fun environment.