Miguel Medina-Serpas is a rising fifth year Ph.D. candidate in the lab of Dr. Todd Brusko at the University of Florida Diabetes Institute.

My work has focused primarily on investigating tissue specific immune responses in primary donor tissue, primarily within the pancreas and draining pancreatic lymph nodes, using a combination of spatial-omic and histological approaches to identify novel tissue-specific immune phenotypes and to interrogate aspects of cellular localization and intercell communication at distinct clinical stages of T1D.