See you in San Diego!

Members of the T2D Knowledge Portal team are gearing up for the 77th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association, June 9-13 in San Diego, CA. We'll be releasing exciting new features of the Portal just before the conference, and we have a wide variety of presentations planned for each day.

On the opening day of the conference (Friday, June 9), join us for a mini-symposium that will present a comprehensive guide to the T2D Knowledge Portal and how you can use it to further your type 2 diabetes research. We will be exhibiting at booth #2452 on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and each day, genetics experts will be available at the booth to answer questions and discuss both the Portal and the genetics of T2D. On Saturday, members of the Portal team will participate in a moderated poster session, and posters will also be displayed on Monday. And on Sunday morning, our principal investigator, Dr. Jose C. Florez, will give a symposium presentation on "Mining the Genome for Therapeutic Targets."

Find the full details in the schedule below and follow us on Twitter (@T2DKP) for up-to-the-minute news throughout the conference. We're looking forward to meeting you!

Friday, June 9, 2017

Mini-Symposium: A Researcher’s Guide to Exploring Diabetes Genetic Data in the Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal
Chair: Mark McCarthy
11:30am - 12:30pm, Room 28

11:30-11:50am        Noël Burtt: Data, Analysis, and Tools in the Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal
11:50am-12:10pm   Jason Flannick: Demonstration of Questions that Can Be Addressed Using the Portal

12:10-12:30pm       Question and Discussion Period


Saturday, June 10, 2017

• Exhibiting at booth #2452, 10am - 4pm

• Moderated Poster Session: Genetic Data, Pathways, and Variants for Type 2 Diabetes and Related Traits. 12:30-1:30pm, Hall B

Poster 1765-P
The Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal: Accelerating Type 2 Diabetes Research through Community Access to Human Genetic Information and Tools
Presenter: Maria C. Costanzo

Poster 1766-P
Key Biological Pathways for Type 2 Diabetes Determined by Genetic Cluster Analysis on Related Traits
Presenter: Miriam S. Udler

Sunday, June 11, 2017

• Symposium presentation: Mining the Genome for Therapeutic Targets. 

Dr. Jose C. Florez

9:20-9:55am, Ballroom 20D

• Exhibiting at booth #2452, 10am - 4pm

Monday, June 12, 2017

• Exhibiting at booth #2452, 10am - 2pm

• Poster session, 12-1pm, Hall B

Poster 1765-P

The Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal: Accelerating Type 2 Diabetes Research through Community Access to Human Genetic Information and Tools
Presenter: Maria C. Costanzo

Poster 1795-P
Type 2 Diabetes Gene Bioinformatically Identified by Variants Mapping to Amino-Acid Changes in Three-Dimensional Protein Space
Presenter: Marcin von Grotthuss

Report from New Orleans: 76th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association

Members of the T2D Knowledge Portal team braved extreme heat and humidity, as well as icy air conditioning, to attend the American Diabetes Association conference in New Orleans, LA. Our booth in the conference exhibit hall was a great way to interact personally with conference attendees and showcase the Portal. Many genetics researchers stopped by for one-on-one tutorials on our new tools and features. And clinicians and diabetes patients, even if they had no immediate use for genetic information, were happy to hear the goals of the project—to accelerate the identification of genes involved in T2D and, ultimately, to find new treatments and better understand the disease mechanism. 

We were pleased to welcome some special visitors to our booth: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Director Griffin Rodgers and Deputy Division Director Philip Smith. NIDDK is a major supporter of the T2D Knowledge Portal project.

Drs. Philip Smith (left) and Griffin Rodgers visit the Portal booth

Dr. Smith also made an video statement as part of the media coverage at ADA, eloquently explaining the rationale behind the Portal and the needs that it can address.

If you missed us at ADA, come visit us at our booth at the American Society for Human Genetics meeting next October! And if you can’t meet us in person, please feel free to email us at any time. We’re happy to answer questions or provide help in understanding the Portal data and tools.

Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal team at ADA