Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
Dr. Nicole Krentz is an assistant professor in Molecular and Systems Pharmacology in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She received her BSc in cell biology and genetics and her PhD in cell and developmental biology from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Krentz completed her first postdoctoral fellowship at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford where she studied how genetic variation impacts human beta cell development and diabetes risk. For her second postdoctoral fellowship, she trained in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University and investigated diabetes risk loci with pleiotropic effects across multiple developmental lineages.
The Krentz lab combines human genetics and developmental biology to study the molecular mechanisms underlying the genetic contribution to diabetes risk. They use innovative approaches, including mouse models of organogenesis, genome editing, stem and progenitor cell differentiation to multiple lineages, and multi-omics analyses, to study how metabolic cells normally develop and how defects in this process leads to disease.
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
14:00 – 15:00 EST