ADS Pincus Taft Young Investigator Award Presentation
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Breakout 2: Room 6
| Wednesday, August 20, 2025 |
| 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM |
| Room 6 |
Speaker
Mr Aditya Nachanekar
Doctoral Candidate
Western Sydney University
Dr Stewart Masson
Postdoctoral Researcher
The University of Sydney
Genetic mapping of insulin sensitivity in diversity outbred mice
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Stewart is a postdoctoral researcher in David James lab at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre. His PhD focussed on identifying new signalling pathways regulating GLUT4 trafficking, while his postdoctoral research has mainly focussed on the systems biology of metabolic disease. This has mainly been conducted using genetically diverse collections of mice coupled to bioinformatic and mass spectrometry based methods.
Mr Aaron Lambert
Phd Candidate
University of Sydney
Genetic mapping of the morphological and proteomic landscapes of adipose tissue reveals novel extracellular matrix – adipocyte interactions
11:30 AM - 11:45 AMBiography
Aaron Lambert is in the 2nd year of his PhD candidature in the David James Lab at the University of Sydney. His study centres around clarifying genetic determinants of adipose tissue morphology.
Mr Yi Lin Jiang
Phd Candidate
University of Sydney
Systems genetics links Ets1 suppression to enhanced glucose uptake in insulin-resistant adipocytes
11:45 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
Yi Lin completed a combined degree of Bachelor of Advanced Computing (Honours) and Bachelor of Science (Medical Science) at the University of Sydney. In 2023, he joined the David James lab as a Dalyell Scholar and CPC Research Scholar, later beginning a PhD focused on adipose tissue glucose metabolism.
Miss Chenping Du
PhD Candidate
Mater Research Institute / University of Queensland
Oral RAGE antagonists induce Tregs and anergy on effector T cells to protect against preclinical autoimmune diabetes
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMBiography
Chenping is a third year PhD candidate at Mater Research Institute - UQ. Her research focusus on exploring RAGE therapeutics for Type 1 diabetes.
Miss Saee Zambre
PhD Student
Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland
RAGE antagonism restores immune homeostasis and improves kidney function in an outbred CD-1 model of diabetic kidney disease.
12:15 PM - 12:30 PMBiography
Saee is a second year PhD student at the Mater research institute, University of Queensland. Her research is based on the use of preclinical animal models, immune cells and kidney samples from a unique cohort of people with and without kidney disease in diabetes to identify underlying risk factors.
Dr Weikun Huang
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Adelaide
A gut on a chip platform to monitor GLP-1 secretion dynamics from primary intestinal tissue
12:30 PM - 12:45 PMBiography
Dr. Huang is an early career researcher in multidisciplinary medical science, undertaking postdoctoral research training within the Adelaide Medical School. He has a unique interdisciplinary background across medicine, physics and animal sciences, which has enabled him to develop novel research platforms, including multiplexed fluorescence sensor and organ-on-a-chip device, to interrogate the biological functions of metabolic tissues in health. In addition to the innovation of research tools, he has embarked on studies to understand metabolic derangement via cell models and (pre-)clinical trials in the context of major metabolic diseases, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and MAFLD.
Dr Melkam Kebede
Associate Professsor
The University Of Sydney
Chairperson
Biography
Dr Ross Laybutt
Principal Research Scientist
Westmead Institute for Medical Research
Chairperson
Biography
