Haokao Gao, Gang Niu, Min Yang, Qimeng Quan, Ying Ma, Jessica N. Claire, Jung-Mo Ahn, Dale O. Kiesewetter, and Xiaoyuan Chen, PET of Insulinoma Using 18F-FBEM-EM3106B, a New GLP-1 Analogue. Mol. Pharmaceuticals, 2011, 8, 1775-1782. Su-Tang Lo, Jessica Claire, Jung-Mo Ahn and Xiankai Sun, PET imaging of pancreatic *-cell mass changes in a mouse model. J. Nucl Med 2011, 52 (Supplement 1): 86. Jessica N. Claire, Guangzu Gao, Alessandro Bisello, and Jung-Mo Ahn, Development of Potent Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Agonist with High Enzyme Stability via Introduction of Multiple Lactam Bridges. J. Med. Chem. 2010, 53 17, 6412-6420. Jessica N. Claire, Guangzu Gao, Alessandro Bisello, and Jung-Mo Ahn, Highly constrained glucagon-like peptide-1 with improved biological activity and enzyme stability. Peptides: Breaking Away, Proceedings of the 21st American Peptide Symposium. M. Lebl, Ed., American Peptide Society, San Diego, CA, 2009, pp. 144-145. Jessica Claire, Martin Beinborn, and Jung-Mo Ahn, Seeking for Alpha-Helical Propensity in a Receptor-Bound Conformation of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1. Peptides: Chemistry, Structure and Biology, Proceedings of the 20th American Peptide Symposium. E. Escher, W. D. Lubell, and S. Del Valle, Eds., Springer, New York, NY, 2009, pp.289-290. Jung-Mo Ahn, Sun-Young Han, Jessica Claire, and Martin Beinborn, Rational Design of Peptidomimetics for Class B GPCRs: Potent Non-Peptide GLP-1 Receptor Agonists. Peptides: Chemistry, Structure and Biology, Proceedings of the 20th American Peptide Symposium. E. Escher, W. D. Lubell, and S. Del Valle, Eds., Springer, New York, NY, 2009, pp.125-126. Jessica N. Claire, Jonathan C. Schroeder, Martin Beinborn, Jung-Mo Ahn, Search for *-helical propensity in the receptor-bound conformation of Glucagon-like Peptide-1, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2008, 16, 23, 10106-10112. Presentations and Posters: 22nd American Peptide Society Symposium, San Diego, California (June 22nd -30th 2011) Highly Constrained GLP-1 Analogues as non-invasive PET imaging agents for the assessment of pancreatic beta-cell mass (Poster). 22nd American Peptide Society Symposium, San Diego, California (June 22nd -30th 2011) Solution structure of a GLP-1 receptor peptidomimetic agonist Ac-SH3-GLP-1(22-36) NH2 (Poster). ABRF 2011, San Antonio Texas (Feb 2011) Application of constrained peptides to various biological process (Poster). 43rd ACS meeting in miniature, (April 17th 2010), Incorporation of lactam bridges on GLP-1 improves the potency and the enzyme stability (Talk). 21st American Peptide Society Symposium, Bloomington Indiana, (June 7 to 12th 2009). Highly Constrained Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 with improved biological activity and enzyme stability (Poster). 13th Annual Chemistry-Biology Symposium, University of Texas at Dallas. (March 26th, 2008) Synthesis of Alpha Helix Stabilized Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Analogs (Talk).