Brain Hypoglycemia Detection in the Control of Glucagon Secretion

Brain Hypoglycemia Detection in the Control of Glucagon Secretion

Wednesday, September 30, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Presenter: Bernard Thorens, PhD

Organization: Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne

Bio: Dr. Thorens received his PhD from the University of Geneva for studies on the biosynthesis of immunogluobulins in pre-B lymphocytes. He then did a first postdoctoral fellowship in Geneva working on hematopoietic growth factors with Pierre Vassalli. In 1986, he moved to the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge (USA) for a postdoctoral fellowhisp in Harvey Lodish laboratory. In 1991, he came back to Switzerland to take a Career Development award from the SNSF and to establish his laboratory at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. Since 2002, he has been a Professor on Physiology and he joined the Center for Integrative Genomics in 2005.

Websitehttps://www.unil.ch/cig/en/home/menuinst/research/prof-thorens.html

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