For the past year I was involved in building up an application for a Norwegian Centre of excellence focused on investigating distinct and overlapping diabetes mechanisms all-along different life stages. Our initial application was selected in Phase 1 that allowed…
Lucas Unger has joined our research group as a new PhD candidate. Welcome, Lucas! Lucas completed his Bachelor studies at Heidelberg University, and his Master studies at Technical University Darmstadt. He has practical experience in advanced cellular and molecular biology…
I will give talk about our recent work including some recent unpublished data at BBB Seminars Series on the coming Thursday, 11th of November 2021.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
Both Luiza and I will talk about our recent work on diabetic models and respectively stem cell work at the next 42nd anniversary symposium of the Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology “Nicolae Simionescu” held jointly with the 38th Annual…
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.
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…
I recently was invited by the organizers to give a talk on our work at the next Tuesday Seminar on 21st of September hosted by the Center for Molecular Medicine Norway. For more details, please click here.
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…
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…
I recently was invited by the organizers to give a talk on our work at the next Colloques du Jeudi 2021, 26 May hosted by the Département de Médecine, Service d’Endocrinologie, Diabétologie, Nutrition et Education Thérapeutique du Patient, Hôpital Cantonal…
Our latest work on iPSC-derived human pancreatic progenitors differentiation is now out for Early View: The main goal of this study was to assess the effects of elevated glucose concentrations exposure during the last stages of guided in vitro differentiation…
We are very happy and grateful to the Novo Nordic Foundation @novonordiskfond that will continue to support our research for the next 5 years! We are delighted to continue our work on the role of somatostatin-producing delta-cells in monogenic diabetes.…