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Science Stream

DCS5 - Pancreatic Islet Stress

Thursday, November 27, 2025
10:30 - 11:45 Toronto
Location: Room 201 A/B/C/D/E/F

    Speaker(s)

  • Tara MacDonald, PhD (she/her/hers)

    Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Disclosure(s): I do not have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose

  • Yi-Chun Chen (she/her/hers)

    Assistant Professor
    University of Saskatchewan
    University of Saskatchewan
    Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Disclosure(s): I do not have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose

  • Dan S. Luciani, PhD

    Associate Professor
    University of British Columbia / BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
    University of British Columbia
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Disclosure(s): Breakthrough T1D: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); CIHR: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Diabetes Canada: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)

    • Moderator(s)

  • VINCENT POITOUT, DVM, PhD (he/him/his)

    Professor of Medicine
    Université de Montréal - CRCHUM
    Université de Montréal
    Montréal, Quebec, Canada

    Disclosure(s): Biodexa: Grant/Research Support (Terminated, December 31, 2024); Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Charles River Laboratories: Employment (Ongoing); Diabetes Canada: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); NIH: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); NSERC: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)

Disclosure(s):
Tara MacDonald, n/a: I do not have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose
Yi-Chun Chen: I do not have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose
Dan S. Luciani, PhD: Breakthrough T1D: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); CIHR: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Diabetes Canada: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
VINCENT POITOUT, DVM, PhD: Biodexa: Grant/Research Support (Terminated, December 31, 2024); Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Charles River Laboratories: Employment (Ongoing); Diabetes Canada: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); NIH: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); NSERC: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
Learning Objectives: This session will:
• Describe how stress in pancreatic islets leads to defects in insulin secretion
• Describe how stress in pancreatic islets leads to cellular, tissue and whole-body metabolic dysfunction and risk of T1D or T2D diabetes