2010 AnnuAl REpoRT - Ciberdem

Autonomous Community project
Grup de recerca en diabetis i co-morbiditats associades.
DiReCor
Generalitat de Catalunya, AGAUR, 2009 SGR 01257: 2009-
2013
Principal Investigator: Joan Vendrell Ortega
Associate investigators: Miriam Campos, Victoria
Ceperuelo, Xavier Escoté, Luís Gallart, Cristina Gutiérrez,
Elsa Maymó, Ana Megía, Mercedes Miranda, Matilde
Rodríguez, Inmaculada Simón
Private funds
El papel de la citoquina TWEAK en la diabetes gestacional
y su relación con otras adipoquinas y la sensibilidad a la
insulina
Novo Nordisk: 2009-2011
Principal Investigator: Joan Vendrell Ortega
Associate investigators: Xavier Escoté, Ana Megía,
Inmaculada Simón
PhD theses
Estudio del canal de glicerol AQP7 y de la adipoquina ZAG
en el ámbito de la obesidad, la diabetes tipo 2 y el síndrome
metabólico. Dos proteínas implicadas en la lipólisis del
tejido adiposo
Author: Victoria Ceperuelo Mallafré
Thesis advisor: Joan Vendrell Ortega
University: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Thesis defense date: May 14, 2010
Awards
Award for a short term fellowship to visit the Montpellier
Cancer Research Institute, Montpellier, EMBO-European
Molecular Biology Organization (2010)
Awardee: Xavier Escoté ■
Biology of GLP1 in adipose tissue: Characterization of
a new insulin-mediated adipose cell proliferation control
factor and its implications in inflammation and diabetes
Laboratorios MSD: 2008-2010
Principal Investigator: Joan Vendrell Ortega
Scientific collaborations within CIBERDEM
Adult adipose tissue-derived progenitor cells: the influence
of the clinical phenotype and adipose depot origin on their
biological properties
STEMOB: 2009-2010
Coordinator: Joan J Vendrell
CIBERDEM groups: J Vendrell, S Fernández Veledo,
A Zorzano, J Balsinde, AM Gómez Foix, E Montanya, R
Simó, M Vázquez Carrera
Determinants of insulin resistance and glucose tolerance
disorders, including diabetes, in severe obesity and their
changes after bariatric surgery-induced weight loss
DIASOBS: 2009-2010
Coordinator: Héctor F Escobar Morreale
CIBERDEM groups: J Vendrell, X Correig, E Montanya,
HF Escobar Morreale, R Simó
Di@bet.es Study: 1st epidemiological study of the
prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Spain
Coordinator: F Soriguer
CIBERDEM groups: J Vendrell, F Soriguer, R Carmena,
L Castaño, R Gomis, M Serrano Ríos
CIBERDEM Biobank
Coordinator: A Novials
CIBERDEM Biobank Nodes: J Vendrell, R Gomis, A Novials,
L Masana, L Castaño, M Serrano Ríos, F Soriguer, R Carmena,
M Blanco Vaca
Immunostaining in Caco-2 polarized cells. Differentiated Caco-2
cells were immunostained with several organelle markers: A, Golgi
(GM130); B, ER (calreticulin); C, F-actin (phalloidin) and D, tight
junctions (ZO-1).
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