
BT1D NORCAL COE
CONFERENCES, PROGRESS MEETINGS, AND EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place next Friday, November 7th, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the November 2025 meeting will be:
UCSF Speaker: TBD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bhushan Lab
Presentation Topic: TBD

BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting (PAST EVENT)
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place next Friday, October 3rd, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the October 2025 meeting will be:
Stanford Speaker: Xiangyue Zhang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Engleman Lab
Presentation Topic: Erythropoietin receptor on cDC1s dictates immune tolerance

BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting (PAST EVENT)
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place next Friday, September 12th, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the September 2025 meeting will be:
UCSF Speaker: Shabrina Amirruddin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sneddon Lab
Presentation Topic: Enhancing Cell Replacement Therapy for Diabetes with Vascularized Stem Cell-Derived Pancreatic Islets

BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting (PAST EVENT)
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place next Friday, June 6th, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the June 2025 meeting will be:
Stanford Speaker: Kyle Loh, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Developmental Biology (Stem Cell)
Presentation Topic: Improved approaches to create human vascular cells, with the ultimate goal of vascularizing islets

BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting (PAST EVENT)
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place next Friday, May 9th, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the May 2025 meeting will be:
UCSF Speaker - Roberto Castro Gutierrez, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar (Tang lab), UCSF Diabetes Center
Presentation Title: Developing a beta cell specificity Treg therapy for Type 1 Diabetes

BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting (PAST EVENT)
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place next Friday, April 4th, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the April 2025 meeting will be:
UCSF Speaker: Mehdi Soleymani-Goloujeh, PhD. – Postdoctoral Fellow, Parent and Tang Labs
Presentation Title: Modeling stem cell-derived islet rejection using engineered immune cells

BT1D NorCal CoE Progress meeting (PAST EVENT)
Our next BT1D NorCal CoE Progress Meeting will take place next Friday, February 7th, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. An updated calendar invitation has been sent for this meeting time.
The speaker for the February 2025 meeting will be:
Stanford Speaker - Dr. Stephen Ramos, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar (Kim lab), Developmental Biology, Stanford University
Presentation Title: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation to promote replacement islet tolerance
