PhD candidate
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Enrolled in the Physiology and Pharmacology program. My current research builds on the findings of my master thesis but has greatly developed since. During my first and second year I focused on the establishment of in vivo work, manipulating glucose metabolism in wild-type (WT) and TAAR1-knock out mice. Over the last year and into the present I focused on cell-to-cell communication within the pancreatic islet (as reviewed in 10.1016/j.chembiol.2020.07.023) and in particular on the role of glucagon as an important factor for β-cell functionality. For this, I study pancreatic cell lines in co-culture manipulating culture conditions or work on primary mouse and human pancreatic islets.