{"id":12,"date":"2016-09-09T13:10:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/stanleylab\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:08:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:08:59","slug":"meet-the-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/stanleylab\/meet-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-110 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/stanleylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2025\/08\/website-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"141\" \/>Sarah Stanley, MB <\/b><b>BChir<\/b><b>, PhD <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor, Co-Director, Human Islet and Adenovirus Core,<\/p>\n<p>Diabetes, Obesity &amp; Metabolism Institute &amp; Friedman Brain Institute<\/p>\n<p>Sarah trained as a clinical endocrinologist at Cambridge University and Hammersmith Hospital in the UK. She completed her PhD with at Imperial College and post-doctoral training with Jeffrey Friedman at Rockefeller University. Since establishing her laboratory, she has focused on investigating the roles of central and peripheral circuits in the regulation of glucose metabolism in physiology and disease.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-114 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/stanleylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2025\/08\/website-5-300x261.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"122\" \/>Maria Jimenez-Gonzalez, BS, PhD<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Instructor,<\/p>\n<p>Diabetes, Obesity &amp; Metabolism Institute<\/p>\n<p>Maria completed her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at University of Navarre before post-doctoral studies on pancreatic imaging at San Sebastian, and islet function at Johns Hopkins. Maria\u2019s work is focused on applying novel tools to examine the roles of peripheral innervation in metabolic function.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-113 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/stanleylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2025\/08\/website-6-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/stanleylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2025\/08\/website-6-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/stanleylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2025\/08\/website-6.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/b><b>Diego Espinoza, BS, MA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Graduate student, Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutics<\/p>\n<p>Diego graduated from Rutgers University-Newark with a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology. After working in several academic labs, he joined the lab to first complete his Master\u2019s in Biomedical Science and is now for his PhD. Diego\u2019s current project is using central and neuromodulation to dissect the circuits linking stress and metabolic regulation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-112 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/stanleylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2025\/08\/website-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"132\" \/>Jamie Carty, BS <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Graduate student, Neuroscience<\/p>\n<p>Jamie graduated with a degree in neuroscience from Bucknell University where she researched peripheral sensory input to learning behavior with Dr. K. Myers. After college, she spent three years as a postbaccalaureate research associate at the University of Pennsylvania in Dr. Nicholas Betley\u2019s lab, where she studied the role of sensory input to satiety and reward. Currently, Jamie is using central and peripheral neuromodulation to study the brain to body and the body to brain regulation of glucose homeostasis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-111 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/stanleylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2025\/08\/website-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"139\" \/>Finn Seibold, BS <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Research Associate,<\/p>\n<p>Diabetes, Obesity &amp; Metabolism Institute<\/p>\n<p>Finn graduated from University of Michigan with a degree in Biopsychology, cognition &amp; neuroscience where he researched feeding behavior with Dr. C Ferrario. Finn\u2019s current work is examining the neural circuits linking PTSD and obesity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Stanley, MB BChir, PhD Associate Professor, Co-Director, Human Islet and Adenovirus Core, Diabetes, Obesity &amp; Metabolism Institute &amp; Friedman Brain Institute Sarah trained as a clinical endocrinologist at Cambridge University and Hammersmith Hospital in the UK. She completed her PhD with at Imperial College and post-doctoral training with Jeffrey Friedman at Rockefeller University. 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