Meltem Eda Omur

Thank you Lack Lab!

Thank you, Jim! It is always a pleasure to work with you

Thank you Jamie!

Thank you Bruce! I am
so happy to have you in my committee. I appreciate your guidance and support a lot!

Dr Meltem Omur standing with her PhD advisor Wyeth Wasserman. Dr. Omur is holding a sculpted wood talking stick

Congratulations to Dr. Meltem Omur for successfully defending her PhD thesis today. She was and is awesome.

New paper alert!! Thread from recent PhD graduate Jamie Chu

Check out the first result of a really fun collaboration with @jimjohnsonsci.bsky.social and @wywywa.bsky.social labs. We find new factors that improve stem cell-derived beta cell survival. Supported by @breakthrought1dca.bsky.social Centre of Exellence @ubcmedicine.bsky.social

A prioritized medium-throughput screen on human stem cell derived insulin secreting beta cells identifies FGF4, FGF5, FGF8F, FGF19 and FGF21 as protective factors Insulin is produced by pancreatic β cells, whose dysfunction and death are hallmarks of diabetes. Stem cell-derived β-like cells (SCβ cells) are a potential alternative to cadaveric islets for replace...

Excited to share the 3rd first-author paper from my PhD! A big thank you to everyone who participated, and to CIHR and Breakthrough T1D Centre of Excellence at UBC for funding! More details below...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...