Stream 3 Session #2: Mitochondrial Metabolism
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Meeting Room 105 & 106
| Wednesday, August 19, 2026 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
| Meeting Room 105 & 106 (Level 1) |
Speaker
Dr Alexis Diaz Vegas
Research Fellow
The University of Sydney
Chairperson
Biography
Luke Formosa
Chairperson
Biography
Prof Edward Chouchani
Professor
Dana-farber Cancer Institute / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Discovery of a protein that controls cysteine catabolism and its relevance to metabolic disease
11:00 AM - 11:25 AMBiography
Prof Aleksandra Filipovska
Chair of Child Health Research and NHMRC Investigator
The University of Western Australia
Rewiring cell metabolism in health and disease
11:25 AM - 11:50 AMBiography
A/Prof Katrin J Svensson
Associate Professor
Stanford University
Peptide discovery in metabolism and physiology
11:50 AM - 12:15 PMBiography
Dr Xiaoya Li
Physician
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital
Mitochondrial enzyme GLYAT regulates adipocyte mitochondrial function in obesity
12:15 PM - 12:30 PMBiography
The presenting author is a resident physician at the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research focuses on obesity and adipose metabolism. She has first/co-first authored publications in Diabetes, Molecular Metabolism, and Obesity, and leads two national research projects.
