Staff Profile

I work in the Transplant and Regenerative Medicine laboratory on the Quality in Organ Donation (QUOD) biobank project, collecting and processing tissue from donor pancreas, lung, and heart for multimodal research analyses.  In our lab we also isolate islets from donor pancreata for research into islet transplantation and diabetes.

My research is primarily focused on light microscopy and transmission electron microscopy analysis of donor pancreas tissue, investigating the exocrine and endocrine pathology of organs in the QUOD tissue bank with a particular interest in type 2 diabetes.

• Dyson NJ, Kattner N, Honkanen-Scott M, Hunter B, Doyle JA, White K, Davey TS, Ploeg RJ, Bury YA, Tiniakos DG, Shaw JAM, Scott WE. Development and Application of a Semi quantitative Scoring Method for Ultrastructural Assessment of Acute Stress in Pancreatic Islets. Transplantation Direct 2022, 8(1), e1271.
• Kattner N, Dyson N, Bury Y, Tiniakos D, White K, Davey T, Eliasson L, Tindale L, Wagner B, Honkanen-Scott MM, Doyle J, Ploeg RJ, Shaw JAM, Scott III WE. Development and validation of a quantitative electron microscopy score to assess acute cellular stress in the human exocrine pancreas. Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research 2020, 7(2), 173-187.
• Dyson N, Kattner N, Carey S, Honkanen-Scott M, Hunter B, Davey T, Shaw JA, Scott WE. P.112: Ultrastructural Assessment of the Associations of Obesity and Established Diabetes in Human Pancreata. In: 18th World Congress of the International Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association (IPITA 2021). 2021, Virtual: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.