Richard Benninger

@StimulatedRaman @Spect Congratulations Lingyan- a well deserved honor!

I am honored to won 2025 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy! My research at UCSD on advancing molecular imaging tools to push the boundaries of scientific discovery. A huge thank you to my incredible team, mentors, colleagues, and collaborators for their support! @Spect

Check out the pre-print for the influence of alpha cells on islet Ca2+ responses, including first-responders and first phase timing/amplitude. Was great to be part of this!

BiorXiv: Islet GLP1-R signaling has 2x effect on 1st phase amplitude, 4x effect on frequency of Ca2+ oscillations (proxy for 2nd phase insulin secretion), 1st responders, and hubs - all without gut - derived GLP. Alpha cells & glucagon are main suspects. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Imagine what would happen today if @doge posted on @x there was a study “testing the venom of Gila monsters to determine if they can cure diabetes “. globalnews.ca/news/9793403/o…

Collins and Farnsworth provide an overview of the use of nanocarriers for cell-targeted delivery and the current state of the field of beta cell targeting. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Check out our ‘Paper of the Month’, led by Anne Gresch @annekaren3007 . Also coming to a Diabetes podcast soon! diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/artic…

@C_Birznieks I hope you get a hand shake at the dinner table!

Thank you to my lab minions for all of their hard work!

@annagloyn @bcellorg @KravetsVira @WRISGMeeting Too cool for Cell Metabolism- glad to see the figure ‘published’!

The big reveal … @bcellorg delivers an amazing Grodsky Lecture #WRISG2024 - shout out to @KravetsVira for the patch-seq t-shirt @WRISGMeeting

Wow! Mathematical modelling of insulin secretion, integrating many upstream and downstream processes - including dual effects of H2O2 and NADPH (and SENP1) at distinct points in secretion. From some colleagues in Maribor. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Bravo Vandy! Anchors down!

Congratulations Lori Sussel! @BarbaraDavisCtr @CUDiabetes @CUAnschutz

Check it out- this was a great collaboration with @merrinslab and great work from Erli and @JenniferKBriggs. Come see our talk too, at EASD on the Thursday 12th Sept.

@EnginLaboratory I mean you’re completely right. Good for the neutral observer!

@BennyScience Oh the first half was boring. Now we have some action!

Congratulations Turkiye - that game was insane.

@KimpleLab @KimpleRandall Congratulations!!!

Crazy!!!!

@guy_rutter @L_F_D_S @CRCHUM @CRCHUM_CELLS @ImperialMDR @HIRN_CC @wellcometrust This is cool work! Congratulations Nikolay and Guy

Exciting collaboration with Nikolay Ninov demonstrating conservation of beta cell hierarchy across species: Pnpo and B6 metabolism are features of an initiator population. Great work from @L_F_D_S! @CRCHUM @CRCHUM_CELLS @ImperialMDR @HIRN_CC @wellcometrust

I’m thrilled to announce I am joining the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes at @CUAnschutz! I can’t wait to bridge our prior work on metabolic and epigenomic regulation of beta cell (mal)adaptation into the T1D space. I’ll be recruiting at all levels—reach out if interested!