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VIRTUAL SEMINAR with Omer Yilmaz, M.D., Ph.D., MIT "Dietary Control of Stem Cells in Physiology and Disease"

Monday, September 14, 2020, 12:00am - 01:00pm

YILMAZ Omer 014Omer Yilmaz, M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hosted by Mike Verzi, 848-445-9578,  

Noon, Monday September 14, 2020
Zoom Meeting Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkcOyhpz0vEtXs1dFfmE20n-cSmC-zorc0
Meeting ID: 929 7599 6581
Passcode: genetics

"Dietary Control of Stem Cells in Physiology and Disease"

Organismal diet has a profound impact on tissue homeostasis and health in mammals. Adult stem cells mediate many aspects of tissue adaptation by balancing self-renewal and differentiation divisions to alter tissue composition in response to the environment. Because somatic stem cells may respond to organismal physiology to orchestrate tissue remodeling and some cancers are understood to arise from transformed stem cells, these findings raise the possibility that organismal diet, stem cell function, and cancer initiation are interconnected. Here I will present work from my group that describes our emerging view of how diet, metabolites and nutrient-sensing pathways instruct mammalian intestinal stem cell fate in homeostasis, adaptation to diet and diseases such as cancer.

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