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Jason Tong - Professor David Hodson Islet Biology Lab University of Oxford Radcliffe Department of Medicine RDM OCDEM Australia #HodSquad JT Postdoctoral research associate JC Tong Sydney OUANZ DPhil PhD Wolfson College

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jason.tong@ocdem.ox.ac.uk


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Islet Biology Lab, OCDEM, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, OX37LE, United Kingdom


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Jason C. L. Tong

BSc Hons I, MPhil, DPhil

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Jason is a post-doctoral research associate within Professor David Hodson's lab based at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM) at the University of Oxford.

Prior to this, he read for the DPhil in Medical Sciences under the supervision of Professor David Hodson. Before coming to Oxford, he worked with Professor Peter Thorn in the Charles Perkins Centre for Diabetes, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Disease, at the University of Sydney.

His research interest is primarily in diabetes: using and developing advanced imaging techniques to uncover new insights into islet function and dysfunction in disease. His current work focuses on using novel molecular probes and cutting-edge microscopy techniques to investigate islet paracrine interactions, and signalling at the incretin receptors – GLP1R and GIPR.

𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳: In this issue, Tong et al. show that the pancreatic alpha cells modulate beta cell function via enriched nanodomains of GLP-1 receptor in the nearest beta cell surface that are more secretory than the more distant beta cells. The image shows the large magenta-coloured alpha cell in contact with the signal-sensing, lilac-green beta cell. The signalling beta cell then passes on the message to the other smaller green beta cells. Artwork by Dr. Sofia Ahola

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