Maria L. Beery Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine University of Florida Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Maria L. Beery Maria Beery is a Core Research Facility Specialist II in the Organ Processing and Pathology Core (OPPC) for the Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors with Diabetes (nPOD) at the University of Florida. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Master's of Science degree from the University of North Florida. Her Master’s thesis research focused on nutrient absorption and amino acid profiling in crustaceans.Between undergraduate and graduate degrees, Maria worked as a chemist at the University of Florida Racing Laboratory, where she conducted illegal substance testing on racehorses using gas and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.After joining the OPPC lab at nPOD, Maria has been fortunate to learn and perfect several techniques including live pancreas tissue slice generation, slice culture and perifusion, and fluorescent microscopy. She also contributes to original research, manages image and clinical databases, assists research investigators with their tissue sample requests, and trains lab members. She is in the process of mastering islet isolation from human pancreas and optimizing automated IHC staining for routine screening use. Publications Pancreatlas: Applying an Adaptable Framework to Map the Human Pancreas in Health and Disease Patterns (New York, N.Y.). Nov, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 33294866 Islet Amyloidosis in a Child with Type 1 Diabetes Islets. Month, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31084520 Observing Islet Function and Islet-Immune Cell Interactions in Live Pancreatic Tissue Slices Mollie K. Huber1, Denise M. Drotar2,3,4, Helmut Hiller1, Maria L. Beery1, Paul Joseph1, Irina Kusmartseva1, Stephan Speier2,3,4, Mark A. Atkinson1, Clayton E. Mathews1, Edward A. Phelps5 1Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, 2Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden (PLID) of the Helmholtz Zentrum München at the University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus of Technische Universität Dresden, 3Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, 4German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), 5J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida JoVE 62207 Immunology and Infection
Observing Islet Function and Islet-Immune Cell Interactions in Live Pancreatic Tissue Slices Mollie K. Huber1, Denise M. Drotar2,3,4, Helmut Hiller1, Maria L. Beery1, Paul Joseph1, Irina Kusmartseva1, Stephan Speier2,3,4, Mark A. Atkinson1, Clayton E. Mathews1, Edward A. Phelps5 1Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, 2Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden (PLID) of the Helmholtz Zentrum München at the University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus of Technische Universität Dresden, 3Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, 4German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), 5J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida JoVE 62207 Immunology and Infection
