The Banerjee Lab
MAJOR RECENT LAB NEWS:
November 2024:
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Ron is promoted to Associate Professor!
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OLDER LAB NEWS AND TIMELINE:
October 2024:
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Ron is an invited speaker at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Endocrine Grand Rounds
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June 2024
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Nelmari presents the lab poster on "The c-Jun transcription factor regulates beta-cell survival following prolactin treatment" at the ADA 84th Scientific Sessions in Orlando, FL
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May 2024:
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Review on "Pancreatic islet adaptation in pregancy and postpartum" is published in Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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November 2023:
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Nelmari awarded an American Diabetes Association Postdoctoral Fellowship for her research proposal and project. Congratulations Nelmari!
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June 2022:
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Nelmari Ruiz Otero joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
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Dr. Banerjee invited to speak at the American Diabetes Association annual scientific meeting in New Orleans Session on “Revisiting Beta-cell Function in Pregnancy” June 4th, 2022.
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July 2021:
The Banerjee Lab moves to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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May 2021:
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A clinical case report by Dr. Banerjee and colleagues describing a patient with severe deficiency of vitamin D and vitamin D binding protein is accepted at the Journal of the Endocrine Society
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April 2020: Dr. Banerjee is awarded an R01 from the NIDDK
May 2019
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Prolactin Receptor Signaling Regulates a Pregnancy-Specific Transcriptional Program in Mouse Islet. published in Endocrinology (see Publications tab for link)
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January 2019: Dr. Banerjee is awarded a Junior Faculty Development Award from the American Diabetes Association!
March 2019
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Eric Stokes admitted to multiple graduate schools, matriculates with University of Colorado, Denver. Congrats, Eric!
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Mark Pepin presents poster on PRLR regulation of pregnancy transcriptome at ENDO2019 meeting in New Orleans, LA.
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February 2019 Boshell Diabetes Day at Auburn University
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Eric Stokes' poster "Genetically characterizing the expression patterns of pancreatic β-cell sub-populations during pregnancy" wins 2nd place in the graduate student competition.
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Mark Pepin presented a short talk about our collaborative project with the Wende and Hunter labs (UAB) involving transcriptional regulation of gestational β-cell adaptation by PRLR signaling.
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Eric Stokes at his poster (Auburn Diabetes Day)
May 2018
Paper on GH tissue sensitivity published in FEBS Open Bio. (Collaboration with Stuart Frank Lab, UAB)
March 2018
Poster titled "Identification Of Pregnancy-specific Mediators Of Pancreatic Islet Adaptation Using Beta-cell Prolactin Receptor Knockout Mice" selected for moderated poster presentation at ENDO2018.
January 2018
Dr. Banerjee's Invited review on Islet adaptations in pregnancy published in Annals of NYAS.
April 2017
Dr. Banerjee awarded a Pilot and Feasibility Grant from the UAB Diabetes Research Center!
7/1/2016 Dr. Banerjee begins his lab at UAB