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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · 57m

Congratulations to our Post-Doc @sarahehancock.bsky.social who was awarded a New Treatment Innovation Grant at the Pankind Scientific Meeting today! This will support our research in understanding chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer and reveal new therapeutic targets for treatment.

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · 7d

A big congratulations to our very own Dr @jasmineleighb.bsky.social for taking home the ECR Award for Best Oral Presentation in the Basic Science Steam! 🎉🎉

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · 7d

This week our PhD student @phenylauraline.bsky.social & Post-Doc Dr @jasmineleighb.bsky.social presented their work at the Australian New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS) Meeting held in Perth! 👩🏻‍🔬

#WomeninSTEM

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Laura Choong @phenylauraline.bsky.social · 7d

Started off the week in Perth at the Australian & New Zealand Obesity Society Annual Meeting presenting my work on novel ceramide synthases & their anti-obesogenic effects.

Had a great time at ANZOS and exploring Rottsnest Island, home to the extremely friendly and fluffy quokkas!

#WomeninSTEM

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Jul 10

Our Lab Head, Nigel Turner, showing off our ongoing projects at the UNSW's School of Biomedical Sciences and Health Sciences Research Info Night 🧑‍🔬

Looking forward to meeting many keen and aspiring scientists in the making! 🤩

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Laura Choong @phenylauraline.bsky.social · Jun 22

Thrilled to share my recent work on subcellular ceramide distribution at @aomsc2025.bsky.social’s Young Scientist Forum in Ishigakijima, Japan! 🇯🇵🗾

Looking forward to many great discussions this week 👩🏻‍🔬

Come visit my poster (34) on Monday morning!

#AOMSC2025 #TeamMassSpec #FemalesinMassSpec

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · May 26

Judging a bake-off is a piece of cake for our group leader 🍰. Now back to the lab to check our blood sugars... @victorchang.edu.au 🧪

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Apr 17

Congrats to our newest group member Alex on winning first place in the @victorchang.edu.au annual Easter Egg Hunt

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Apr 8

Our lab is now accepting applications for PhD positions! Join our cutting-edge research team and contribute to groundbreaking discoveries in:
- Cardiometabolic disease
- Diabetes and obesity
- Cancer metabolism
- Mitochondrial bioenergetics
More info on us: www.victorchang.edu.au/heart-resear... 🧪

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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute @victorchang.edu.au · Apr 7

Huge congrats to Prof Nigel Turner, Dr @sarahehancock.bsky.social + Dr @charlesdcox.bsky.social who’ve been awarded funding from NSW Health's CV Research Capacity Program for projects to target aortic stenosis, obesity + diabetes: www.victorchang.edu....
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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Apr 2

Our group leader Prof Nigel Turner was interviewed for the Guardian earlier this week, discussing the hype and hope for NAD+ boosters as anti-ageing therapeutics. Read what he (and our collaborator A/Prof Lindsay Wu) had to say about it here: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 🧪

NAD boosters: Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber are into them, but do they actually stop ageing? | Antiviral

Despite social media hype, there is little evidence that the therapies, marketed as pills, shots and IV infusions, have any effects on ageing

www.theguardian.com

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Mar 21

Great work from our PhD candidate @phenylauraline.bsky.social representing @victorchang.edu.au at the March NSW CVRN rising stars seminar yesterday 🧪👩🏻‍🔬

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Mar 21

Some more behind-the-scenes from our lab photoshoot yesterday, featuring @phenylauraline.bsky.social and @sarahehancock.bsky.social 🧪👩‍🔬

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Mar 20

Some behind the scenes moments from our lab photo shoot earlier today. #SeemyScience 🧪

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Feb 5

Our latest collaborative work with Lindsay Wu from UNSW medicine is now available online in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. In this work we were able to show that CD38 mediates nicotinamide mononucleotide base exchange www.jbc.org/article/S002...

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Dec 21

Check out the latest preprint from our lab group, where we show targeting lipid metabolism can sensitise pancreatic cancer cells to gemacitabine-based chemotherapy. Congrats to our postdoc @sarahehancock.bsky.social for pulling this one together.

bioRxiv Cancer Bio @biorxiv-cancer.bsky.social · Dec 20

Targeting de novo lipogenesis improves gemcitabine efficacy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.628624v1

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Dec 20

Congratulations to our PhD students @jasmineleighb.bsky.social and @phenylauraline.bsky.social for sweeping the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Paul Korner seminar student awards this year. Jasmine took out the best talk overall and Laura was voted people's choice. 🧪👩‍🔬.

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Dec 18

We're thrilled to have been awarded a #NHMRC Ideas grant to develop new treatments for obesity.

We are actively recruiting a PhD student to work in this space, so please get in touch if you would like to know more.

www.victorchang.edu.au/news/nhmrc-g...

Institute’s Researchers Awarded Four NHMRC Ideas Grants - Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

Institute scientists receive ≈$5 million to support research into diabetes, obesity, aortic aneurysm, CHD and potential targets for novel anti-fibrotic therapies.

www.victorchang.edu.au

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Dec 3

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Dec 3

Congrats to our PhD student @phenylauraline.bsky.social on being awarded UNSW Medicine School of Biomedical Sciences Student Demonstrator of the Year Award

Laura Choong @phenylauraline.bsky.social · Dec 3

Delighted to have been awarded the School of Biomedical Sciences (SBMS) Student Demonstrator of the Year Award! 🎉

Thankful to have been able to meaningfully contribute to the journey and learning experience of Pathology andPharmacology students!

#HigherEd #WomenInSTEM

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Nov 29

#PhdSky

Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Nov 29

#cardiosky #lipidsky #cancersky #mitochondria

Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Nov 29

We use a variety of techniques and models in our work including #molbio #lipidomics #metabolomics #proteomics #transcripomics #MSI #invitro #invivo #clinical #biochemistry plus others! 🧪👩‍🔬

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Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory @cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · Nov 29

Our lab is now accepting applications for PhD positions! Join our cutting-edge research team and contribute to groundbreaking discoveries in:
- Cardiometabolic disease
- Diabetes and obesity
- Cancer metabolism
- Mitochondrial bioenergetics
More info on us: www.victorchang.edu.au/heart-resear...

Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory - Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

The Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory focuses on cardiometabolic disease, diabetes and obesity, mitochondrial biology and cancer cell metabolism.

www.victorchang.edu.au

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