Our guest today is Jennifer Hampton Hill, University of Utah is the recipient of the 2022 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Grand Prize for her work that “revealed that the resident microbiome is a promising source of previously undiscovered modulators of host β cells.”
Links to details about the prize-winning essay
https://www.science.org/content/page/2022-noster-science-prize-winners
Essay: From bugs to β cells
SCIENCE, 7 Jul 2022, Vol 377, Issue 6602, pp. 164-165 DOI: 10.1126/science.abq6051
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq6051
Latest research
Jennifer Hampton Hill, Michelle Sconce Massaquoi, Emily Goers Sweeney, Elena S. Wall, Philip Jahl, Rickesha Bell, Karen Kallio, Daniel Derrick, L. Charles Murtaugh, Raghuveer Parthasarathy, S. James Remington, June L. Round, Karen Guillemin
BefA, a microbiota-secreted membrane disrupter, disseminates to the pancreas and increases β cell mass
Cell Metabolism, 34, pp. 1779-1791.e9, (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2022.09.001.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413122003916
Media Coverage
U OF U HEALTH POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW EARNS PRESTIGIOUS NOSTER AND SCIENCE MICROBIOME PRIZE
https://uofuhealth.utah.edu/newsroom/news/2022/07/hill-noster-science-prize
Jumpstarting insulin production with microbial diversity wins NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/957641
MRX website
2022 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize: Noster Inc and AAAS announce the grand winner and finalists of the 2022 NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize
https://noster-mrx.net/post/700075484746317824/news-and-events