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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 25

We look forward to seeing you at the European Islet Study Group conference in Barcelona in Spain next year! 🧫

📅 Save the date for next year’s EISG conference: 4-6 June 2026

EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the #EISG2025 conference in Malmö on June 11-13! 🔬 👏 Diabetes researchers Charlotte Ling and Lena Eliasson from Lund University Diabetes Centre have been part of the organising committe. Read about their work with the conference: www.ludc.lu.se/article/inte...

Photograph of Charlotte Ling and Lena Eliasson.

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Tzuwen Hong @tzuwenhong.bsky.social · Jun 14

Another #EISG done in a classic way! Such an exciting time to be an islet biologist🚀

Thank you for organising this amazing event, had a great time in Malmö 🇸🇪✨
@eisg2025.bsky.social
@kcltype1diabetes.bsky.social

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 18

@tzuwenhong.bsky.social Many thanks for participating and for sharing your experience! 👍 It's great to hear that you enjoyed the event in Malmö. We hope to see you in Barcelona for next year's EISG meeting! 🇪🇸

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Jin @jinnfeng.bsky.social · Jun 13

Just wrapped up an incredible time at 2025EISG! So many thought-provoking talks and loved connecting with fellow researchers🧑‍🔬🤯🐭🔬

Grateful for the science, the people, and the energy! @eisg2025.bsky.social @Lickert Lab ;)

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚀 We have a great line-up of speakers for the final session of #EISG2025, which is focused on beta and non-beta cells. Meritxell Rovira from University of Barcelona discusses potential roles of specific ductal populations in pancreas regeneration and exocrine pathogenesis.
@txellrovira.bsky.social

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 13

🗣️ Are alpha cells and glucagon needed for islet function and glucose homeostasis? This topic is currently being discussed at the EISG conference in Malmö. Mark Huising is chairing the debate with Pedro Herrera, Caroline Bonner, Patrik Rorsman, and Sarah Richardson.
@huisinglab.bsky.social #EISG2025

Mark Huising is chairing today's debate with Pedro Herrera, Caroline Bonner, Patrik Rorsman, and Sarah Richardson.

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 13

Mark Huising from University of California, Davis, presents research on how dynamic crosstalk within the islet shapes insulin release.

🗣️ Don’t miss today's debate “Are alpha cells and glucagon needed for islet function and glucose homoeostasis?”, chaired by Mark @huisinglab.bsky.social #EISG2025.

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 13

🔬 We have reached the final day of #EISG2025 in Malmö and we're looking forward to today’s programme. Professor Klaus H. Kaestner kkaestner.bsky.social from University of Pennsylvania gives a keynote lecture on the human islet in diabetes – lessons learned from the Human Pancreas Analysis Program. 🧫

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Aileen King @aileenking.bsky.social · Jun 12

Beautiful evening in Skåne. @kcltype1diabetes.bsky.social @eisg2025.bsky.social

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Santiago Rodríguez Seguí @rseguilab.bsky.social · Jun 13

Amazing talks by @diegobalboa.bsky.social, @labspagnoli.bsky.social, Simona Chera and many other colleagues yesterday at @eisg2025.bsky.social ! I'm also really glad for the opportunity to share our recently published work. Looking forward to more exciting talks today!

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 12

PhD student Kousik Mandal from Uppsala University presents a poster on pancreatic islet research at our poster session at #eisg2025. The work has been supported by the strategic research area EXODIAB in Sweden. @kousikun.bsky.social

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 12

🔬 One of today’s sessions at the EISG conference in Malmö is focused on modelling human islet cell development. Diego Balboa @diegobalboa.bsky.social from University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi shares insights into modelling human islet development and function with stem cell models.
#eisg2025

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 12

Great talk by Teresa Rodriguez-Calvo from Helmholtz Munich about the link between HLA-I expression, immune infiltration and insulin dynamics in type 1 diabetes at the EISG conference in Malmö 👏
#eisg2025 #diabetes #type1diabetes
@teresarc.bsky.social @www.helmholtz-munich.de

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧬 Josefine Jönsson and Linda Faxius from the Celiac Disease and Diabetes Unit at Lund University Diabetes Centre presented two posters at yesterday’s poster session. Thank you to all poster session participants! 👏

🕠 Don't miss today’s poster session at 17.40 at #EISG2025 in Malmö.

#type1diabetes

Photograph of Josefine Jönsson and Linda Faxius.

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KCL Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge @kcltype1diabetes.bsky.social · Jun 12

At @eisg2025.bsky.social in Sweden — loving the science, the chats, and the new ideas! @williambw.bsky.social showcasing some of our team’s ongoing research.
If you’re here too, come say hi! Excited to learn, share, and connect with brilliant minds in islet biology!

#eisg2025 #kclt1grandchallenge

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CavX @cavx.bsky.social · Jun 12

Excited to be participating at @eisg2025.bsky.social #eisg2025 in beautiful Malmö!

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Leire @bergaraleire.bsky.social · Jun 12

Excited to be presenting one of my PhD projects at #eisg2025 🧬✨

Come say hi at poster 211 or just come chat👋🏻 if you're interested in how a lncRNA might regulate PD-L1 expression in pancreatic beta cells🧫💥

Would love to talk science! 😊 @eisg2025.bsky.social

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Santiago Rodríguez Seguí @rseguilab.bsky.social · Jun 12

Great opening yesterday @eisg2025.bsky.social meeting! Glad to see many interesting talks using INS-1 rat cells to study β-cell function—I couldn’t help but wonder how these treatments might affect Ri-lnc1 expression, our recently reported novel rat long non-coding RNA enriched in mature β-cells 👇

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧫 We have a packed programme for the second day of the European Islet Study Group conference in Malmö. One of the highlights of today is the keynote lecture by Lori Sussel from University of Colorado. She presents research about the regulation of islet cell fates.
#eisg2025 #diabetes

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 11

David Hodson from University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk gives a presentation entitled ”The belt and braces of glucose metabolism in pancreatic beta cells” during the session focused on metabolism in islet cells at today’s EISG conference in Malmö. @daveyboyhod.bsky.social
#eisg2025

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 11

The EISG conference gives early career researchers a great opportunity to present work to more senior researchers. Sara Bsharat from Lund University Diabetes Centre presents research on the identification on novel MAFB target genes in endocrine progenitor cells. #eisg2025

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 11

One of today’s sessions at the European Islet Study Group conference in Malmö, Sweden, is focusing on the genomics of islet cells. Professor Rohit Kulkarni from Harvard University @harvard.edu presents research on the role of epitranscriptomics in regulating metabolism. #eisg2025

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Christos Karampelias @ckarampelias.bsky.social · Jun 11

Great start and talk on genetics of t2d #eisg2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social

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EISG 2025 @eisg2025.bsky.social · Jun 11

Professor Charlotte Ling, from the #eisg2025 steering committee, introduces this year’s European Islet Study Group event in Malmö, Sweden. Lund University Diabetes Centre is the host of this year's meeting, and we are happy to see that over 250 researchers have registered for the meeting 👏

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