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

https://noster-mrx.net/

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