Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory
@cellbioenerglab.bsky.social
The official Blueksy account for the Cellular Bioenergetics Lab at Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute headed by Prof Nigel Turner.
Account run by postdocs and students of the lab.
Account run by postdocs and students of the lab.
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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... 🧪
- Cardiometabolic disease
- Diabetes and obesity
- Cancer metabolism
- Mitochondrial bioenergetics
More info on us: www.victorchang.edu.au/heart-resear... 🧪
Congrats to our PhD student Laura Choong @phenylauraline.bsky.social for winning best student Paul Korner Seminar Series award for 2025! Even more impressive considering she won the People's Choice seminar award last year @victorchang.edu.au 🧪👩🔬
December 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Congrats to our PhD student Laura Choong @phenylauraline.bsky.social for winning best student Paul Korner Seminar Series award for 2025! Even more impressive considering she won the People's Choice seminar award last year @victorchang.edu.au 🧪👩🔬
Celebrating Dr Banks (@jasmineleighb.bsky.social) and Dr Govindäraj (@hemnaphd.bsky.social) who graduated last Friday! 👩🏻🎓 🎉
Wishing you the very best for the many exciting adventures to come!
Wishing you the very best for the many exciting adventures to come!
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Celebrating Dr Banks (@jasmineleighb.bsky.social) and Dr Govindäraj (@hemnaphd.bsky.social) who graduated last Friday! 👩🏻🎓 🎉
Wishing you the very best for the many exciting adventures to come!
Wishing you the very best for the many exciting adventures to come!
Featuring our very own Dr @jasmineleighb.bsky.social as Star Scientist! 🌟👩🏻🔬
Read up on all the awesome work that she’s been up to!
Read up on all the awesome work that she’s been up to!
Star Scientist Dr @jasmineleighb.bsky.social is on a mission to prevent and reverse obesity by unlocking the power of NAD+ - a molecule that helps our cells turn food into energy. Her work could pave the way for new approaches to tackling metabolic and heart disease risk.:
Star Scientist - Dr Jasmine Banks
Institute scientist Dr Jasmine Banks is investigating the potential for NAD+ to transform the treatment of metabolic conditions such as obesity.
www.victorchang.edu.au
November 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Featuring our very own Dr @jasmineleighb.bsky.social as Star Scientist! 🌟👩🏻🔬
Read up on all the awesome work that she’s been up to!
Read up on all the awesome work that she’s been up to!
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
#WomeninSTEM
October 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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
#WomeninSTEM
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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
Had a great time at ANZOS and exploring Rottsnest Island, home to the extremely friendly and fluffy quokkas!
#WomeninSTEM
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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
Had a great time at ANZOS and exploring Rottsnest Island, home to the extremely friendly and fluffy quokkas!
#WomeninSTEM
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! 🤩
Looking forward to meeting many keen and aspiring scientists in the making! 🤩
July 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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! 🤩
Looking forward to meeting many keen and aspiring scientists in the making! 🤩
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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
Looking forward to many great discussions this week 👩🏻🔬
Come visit my poster (34) on Monday morning!
#AOMSC2025 #TeamMassSpec #FemalesinMassSpec
June 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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
Looking forward to many great discussions this week 👩🏻🔬
Come visit my poster (34) on Monday morning!
#AOMSC2025 #TeamMassSpec #FemalesinMassSpec
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 🧪
May 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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 🧪
Congrats to our newest group member Alex on winning first place in the @victorchang.edu.au annual Easter Egg Hunt
April 17, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Congrats to our newest group member Alex on winning first place in the @victorchang.edu.au annual Easter Egg Hunt
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... 🧪
- Cardiometabolic disease
- Diabetes and obesity
- Cancer metabolism
- Mitochondrial bioenergetics
More info on us: www.victorchang.edu.au/heart-resear... 🧪
April 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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... 🧪
- Cardiometabolic disease
- Diabetes and obesity
- Cancer metabolism
- Mitochondrial bioenergetics
More info on us: www.victorchang.edu.au/heart-resear... 🧪
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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....
@cellbioenerglab.bsky.social
@cellbioenerglab.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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....
@cellbioenerglab.bsky.social
@cellbioenerglab.bsky.social
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
April 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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... 🧪
Great work from our PhD candidate @phenylauraline.bsky.social representing @victorchang.edu.au at the March NSW CVRN rising stars seminar yesterday 🧪👩🏻🔬
March 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Great work from our PhD candidate @phenylauraline.bsky.social representing @victorchang.edu.au at the March NSW CVRN rising stars seminar yesterday 🧪👩🏻🔬
Some more behind-the-scenes from our lab photoshoot yesterday, featuring @phenylauraline.bsky.social and @sarahehancock.bsky.social 🧪👩🔬
March 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Some more behind-the-scenes from our lab photoshoot yesterday, featuring @phenylauraline.bsky.social and @sarahehancock.bsky.social 🧪👩🔬
Some behind the scenes moments from our lab photo shoot earlier today. #SeemyScience 🧪
March 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Some behind the scenes moments from our lab photo shoot earlier today. #SeemyScience 🧪
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...
February 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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...
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.
Targeting de novo lipogenesis improves gemcitabine efficacy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.628624v1
December 21, 2024 at 4:09 AM
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.
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. 🧪👩🔬.
December 20, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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. 🧪👩🔬.
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...
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
December 18, 2024 at 4:20 AM
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...
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...
Congrats to our PhD student @phenylauraline.bsky.social on being awarded UNSW Medicine School of Biomedical Sciences Student Demonstrator of the Year Award
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
Thankful to have been able to meaningfully contribute to the journey and learning experience of Pathology andPharmacology students!
#HigherEd #WomenInSTEM
December 3, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Congrats to our PhD student @phenylauraline.bsky.social on being awarded UNSW Medicine School of Biomedical Sciences Student Demonstrator of the Year Award
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...
- 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
November 29, 2024 at 3:20 AM
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...
- Cardiometabolic disease
- Diabetes and obesity
- Cancer metabolism
- Mitochondrial bioenergetics
More info on us: www.victorchang.edu.au/heart-resear...