Stream 3 Session #4: Tissue crosstalk in metabolism
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Meeting Room 101 & 102
| Thursday, August 20, 2026 |
| 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM |
| Meeting Room 101 & 102 (Level 1) |
Speaker
EMCR
Chairperson
Biography
Mark Febbraio
Senior Principal Research Fellow
Baker Heart & Diabetes Inst
Chairperson
Biography
Prof Zane Andrews
Researcher
Monash University
Invited Talk
8:30 AM - 8:55 AMBiography
A/Prof Adam Rose
Principal Investigator
Monash University
Liver glucagon signalling and metabolic control
8:55 AM - 9:20 AMBiography
Dr Magdalene Montgomery
Associate Professor
University of Melbourne
Using genome-wide CRISPR screens to uncover novel regulators of hepatic lipid metabolism in advanced metabolic liver disease
9:20 AM - 9:45 AMBiography
Prof David Komander
Division Head
Walter And Eliza Hall Institute
Ubiquitination of Glycogen and Metabolites
9:45 AM - 10:15 AMBiography
Dr Stewart Masson
Research Fellow
The University of Sydney
High-resolution temporal in vivo phosphoproteomics of skeletal muscle insulin signalling identifies Blpt3a as a novel Akt substrate and positive effector of glucose uptake
10:15 AM - 10:30 AMBiography
Stewart is a research fellow at the University of Sydney and works with Professor David James in the Charles Perkins Centre's Metabolic Cybernetics Laboratory. His research seeks to understand the mechanisms metabolic disease by leveraging natural genetic variation, 'omics, and systems biology approaches.