Speaking at BBB Seminars

I will give talk about our recent work including some recent unpublished data at BBB Seminars Series on the coming Thursday, 11th of November 2021. More details here: https://www.uib.no/en/biomedisin/149148/bbb-seminar-simona-chera  

Happy Halloween!

Thanks all for joining us for a night full of terrors!   Joint @mvaudel and @chera_lab Halloween Party 2021!   Some lab members missed the fun this year (sorry Andreas!), but family members happily stepped in as proud replacements.

Welcome Ulrik and Amanda!

Ulrik Larsen and Amanda Friestad, currently Master students at Master in Biomedical Sciences will begin an internship in our lab from October 2021. They will work with Thomas and Andreas to be trained in cellular and molecular biology techniques, including…

2 PhD positions available!

We are looking for 2 new members to join our increasing research group! Two full-time PhD positions are available for a period of four (4) years. The focus of our research is to seek novel insights into the cellular and…

Collaboration Paper: Stage-specific transcriptomic changes in pancreatic α-cells after massive β-cell loss

A detailed study into alpha-cells transcriptional changes upon massive ablation of beta-cells carried out in collaboration with Dr. Santiago Rodríguez-Seguí  and Prof. Pedro Herrera groups was published today, and we show that: α-cells undergo stage-specific transcriptional changes 5- and 15-days…

Book Chapter: A Method for Encapsulation and Transplantation into Diabetic Mice of hiPSC-Derived Pancreatic Progenitors

Pancreatic islet endocrine cells generated from patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells represent a great strategy for both disease modeling and regenerative medicine. Nevertheless, these cells inherently miss the effects of the intricate network of systemic signals characterizing the living organisms.…