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)

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EMCR

Chairperson

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Mark Febbraio
Senior Principal Research Fellow
Baker Heart & Diabetes Inst

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Prof Zane Andrews
Researcher
Monash University

Invited Talk

8:30 AM - 8:55 AM

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A/Prof Adam Rose
Principal Investigator
Monash University

Liver glucagon signalling and metabolic control

8:55 AM - 9:20 AM

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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 AM

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Prof David Komander
Division Head
Walter And Eliza Hall Institute

Ubiquitination of Glycogen and Metabolites

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

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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 AM

Abstract

Biography

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.
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