Wednesday, August 05, 2020
9:00 AM
- 10:00 AM
Presenter: Jason Spaeth, PhD
Organization: Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Disease, Indiana University School of Medicine
Bio: Dr. Spaeth received his Bachelors of Science degree from Baylor University and his PhD in Molecular Medicine from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He subsequently completed his postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt University.
During his postdoctoral fellowship with Roland Stein at Vanderbilt, Dr. Spaeth was funded by individual fellowships through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and American Diabetes Association (ADA). He has worked to develop tools to carry out his K01 Career Development Award from the NIH.
He launched his research program as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine in 2019, where his research is centered on diabetes pathogenesis. He has a special emphasis on how transcriptional coregulators modulate activities of islet enriched transcription factors critical for pancreas formation and islet beta cell function.
Website: https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/43265/spaeth-jason
Lab: https://jspaeth4.wixsite.com/spaethlab
Twitter: @spaeth_jason
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