Host Krista Lamb is joined by BC Diabetes Research Network researcher and UBC professor Dr. Rachel Murphy, who researches the link between nutrition and chronic diseases, including diabetes and cancer. She discusses how proper diet and nutrition can benefit overall health, and help reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.Learn more about Dr. Rachel Murphy and her research by clicking here and following her on Twitter.Visit us at diabetesBC.ca and follow @BCDiabResNet for updates!

Diabetes: From Beta Cells to Bicycles

Episode 6 - Rachel Murphy

Host Krista Lamb is joined by BC Diabetes Research Network researcher and UBC professor Dr. Robert Boushel, whose research focuses on the effects of exercise on diabetes and other metabolic syndromes. He describes his systems-wide approach to exercise research, and the recent studies indicating that exercise can lead to the remission of type 2 diabetes in adults.Learn more about Dr. Robert Boushel and his research by clicking here and following him on Twitter.Visit us at diabetesBC.ca and follow @BCDiabResNet for updates!

Episode 5 - Robert Boushel

Host Krista Lamb is joined by BC Diabetes Research Network researcher and UBC professor Dr. Angela Devlin, whose academic background is in pediatric nutrition and infant metabolic development. She talks about her multi-disciplinary approach to research in obesity and risk of type 2 diabetes in children, as well as early interventions in pregnancy and early childhood diets. Learn more about Dr. Angela Devlin and her research by clicking here and following her on Twitter.Visit us at diabetesBC.ca and follow @BCDiabResNet for updates!

Episode 4 - Angela Devlin

Host Krista Lamb is joined by BC Diabetes Research Network researcher and UBC professor Dr. Jim Johnson, whose lab studies the basics of beta cell biology, and the whole-body impacts of dysfunctional beta cells using multi-disciplinary approaches. He discusses the recent shift towards beta cell research in understanding both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.Learn more about Dr. Jim Johnson and his research by clicking here and following him on Twitter.Visit us at diabetesBC.ca and follow @BCDiabResNet for updates!

Episode 3 - Jim Johnson

Host Krista Lamb is joined by BC Diabetes Research Network trainee and UBC PhD student Priye Iworima, who works in Dr. Timothy Kieffer’s lab at UBC’s Life Sciences Institute. Her current research involves using stem cells to generate insulin-producing cells, and optimizing the process for potential replacement cell therapy in patients living with type 1 diabetes.Learn more about the research being done in the Kieffer lab by clicking here and following Priye on Twitter.Visit us at diabetesBC.ca and follow @BCDiabResNet for updates!

Episode 2 - Priye Iworima

In our first episode, host Krista Lamb talks to BC Diabetes Research Network lead and UBC professor Dr. Bruce Verchere, who introduces the network and its goal of bringing diabetes researchers together to ultimately find a cure for diabetes. He also describes his lab’s ongoing research on beta cell function and biomarkers to better understand and predict diabetes.Learn more about Dr. Bruce Verchere and his research by clicking here and following him on Twitter.Visit us at diabetesBC.ca and follow @BCDiabResNet for updates!

Episode 1 - Bruce Verchere

Sneak Preview of the official BC Diabetes Research Network podcast, From Beta Cells to Bicycles.Listen to the first episode on January 15, 2020, and every second Wednesday thereafter.Visit us at diabetesBC.ca and follow @BCDiabResNet for updates!

Episode 1 Preview

In our first season, host Krista Lamb sits down with six prominent diabetes researchers in British Columbia, discussing the many aspects of diabetes research and the exciting work being done in the province. “From Beta Cells to Bicycles” refers to the multi-disciplinary nature of diabetes research in BC – from lab bench discoveries to nutrition and exercise sciences– BCDRN researchers are working on many fronts to expand what we know about diabetes, while working towards a cure.