Theodore dos Santos
theodoreds.bsky.social
Theodore dos Santos
@theodoreds.bsky.social
PhD. Candidate | MacDonald Research Group (bcell.org) | Alpha Cells | Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes | Efficient with the Pipette and the Keyboard | DnB Enthusiast | Avid Cook
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🧵(1/4) For the first half of October 2025 we have 3 publications from the CIRTN labs🍁. These papers are from the groups of Drs. Bruce Verchere, Yi-Chun Chen, Francis Lynn, James Shapiro, Tatsuya Kin and Guy Rutter!
October 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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🧵(5/7) Here are the publications from the 2nd half of Sept.2025
From Dr. Patrick MacDonald
"Altered immune and metabolic molecular pathways drive islet cell dysfunction in human type 1 diabetes” PMID: 41026524
www.jci.org/articles/vie...
JCI - Altered immune and metabolic molecular pathways drive islet cell dysfunction in human type 1 diabetes
www.jci.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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🧵(1/7)We are now out of September🍁! From the last two weeks we have had publications from the CIRTN labs of Drs Jenny Bruin, Mourad Ferdaoussi, Peter Light, Patrick MacDonald, James Shapiro and Bruce Verchere!
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Novel insights into the molecular underpinnings of islet cell dysfunction in #T1D highlighting pathways that may be leveraged to preserve residual β-cell function and modulate α-cell activity @bcellorg.bsky.social www.jci.org/articles/vie...
September 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Yesterday we celebrated our 600th human research islet isolation in support of diabetes research (and then last night isolated the islets in the pic). I’m very fortunate to work with such a dedicated team! See more at www.isletcore.ca
September 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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September 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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🧵(2/3) Cont' beginning of Sept 2025:
2) “Glycerol and glycerol-3-phosphate: multifaceted metabolites in metabolism, cancer and other diseases” PMID: 40927981
3) “Osteocalcin has many tricks to get γ-carboxylated” PMID: 40913186
Links in last thread
September 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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🧵(1/3) Our first post highlighting publications coming from CIRTN groups (first half of September 2025)! We have works from the labs of Drs. Marc Prentki, Timothy Kieffer and Mathieu Ferron.
1)“From β soloist to endocrine symphony: Subtype-complete islets conduct glucose harmony” PMID 40912231
September 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Hello! Welcome to the CIRTN-R2FIC BlueSky account! Our group focuses on researching pancreatic islet biology and pathology related to islets such as type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Here you will find bi-weekly updates from the scientists from across Canada that make up CIRTN-R2FIC.
September 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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🔬 How do molecular pathways drive islet dysfunction in T1D? 🔬Join to explores islet cell dysfunction in human T1D.

📝 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#DiabetesResearch #T1D #IsletBiology #MolecularPathways #BetaCells #Bioinformatics #Autoimmunity #Endocrinology
March 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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We link molecular and functional phenotypes of islet cells from donors with type 1 diabetes to understand impaired insulin and glucagon secretion. Immune signalling, nuclear exclusion, mTOR and lysosomes in alpha cell dysfunction.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.20.639325v1
February 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM