About
My PhD work at Harvard, in Rohit Kulkarni's lab at the Joslin Diabetes Center, showed that inflammatory signals can push pancreatic duct cells toward an endocrine fate. In Ralph DeFronzo's group at UT Health San Antonio, Luke Norton and I found that inflammatory lipotoxicity keeps β-cell function impaired in islets from obese mice, even after glucose is corrected.
I now teach anatomy and physiology at the University of San Diego, and I write about diabetes and metabolism for readers outside the lab.
More about me →Research
Islet and β-cell biology under stress, with publications in Cell Reports, Science Translational Medicine, and Nature Communications.
See research →The clamp course
The 1979 glucose clamp algorithm, run live, with the disposition and Matsuda indices and an OGTT workbench.
Open the course →Communication
Essays on diabetes, metabolism, and the academic path.
Read more →Science Tutoring
College A&P, and high-school biology and chemistry, taught from first principles.
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