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03.2025: Congratulations to Dr. Helen Stoelting who was chosen to join VIIN Emerging Leaders Committee
03.2025: Congratulations to Mr. Ashish Foollee for passing his PhD confirmation milestone!
03.2025: Congratulations to Mr. Okka Htin Aung for passing his PhD confirmation milestone!
02.2025: Congratulations to Dr. Yuqin Wu on receiving the Endocrine Society of Australia (ESA) Early Career Publication Grant. ESA - Awards - Research Grants
12.2024: Congratulations to Dr. Yuqin Wu on receiving the Australian Physiological Society PhD Student Publication Prize
12.2024: Congratulations to Dr. Yuqin Wu and our team on our new publication of glucagon action in obesity published in Molecular Metabolism.
12.2024: Congratulations to Dr. Yuqin Wu who was awarded the 2025 Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowship by Monash Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences. Faculty fellowships awarded for early career researchers and postdoctoral future leaders - Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
12.2024: Congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Adam Rose on being awarded a Diabetes Australia Millennium award for type 2 diabetes research!
11.2024: Well done to Dr. Helen Stoelting for giving and oral presentation and judging flash talks at VIIN Young Investigator Symposium
11.2024: Adam, Patricia and Yuqin attended and presented posters at “Breakthrough discoveries in Metabolism, Obesity and Diabetes” meeting held at Lorne. Adam was also a co-organiser and session chair. Well done team!
10.2024: Our new publication on glucagon signalling was highlighted by the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute.
09.2024: Well done to Dr. Helen Stoelting on our co-authored review with the Traven lab on fungal infection and metabolism
09.2024: Congratulations to Dr. Yuqin Wu, Ashish Foollee, Dr. Patricia Rusu and Adam on their work on liver glucagon signalling published in Nature Communications
09.2024: Adam, Helen, Yuqin and Okka attended “Biomolecular Horizons 2024” conference in Melbourne. Yuqin and Okka were selected for talks while Helen presented a poster. Adam helped organise this conference for the AuPS. Well done team!
09.2024: Dr. Helen Stoelting was selected and gave a talk at ImmuMon2024. Well done Helen!
09.2024: Congratulations to Dr. Yuqin Wu for giving an excellent PhD exit seminar. Onwards and upwards!
08.2024: Adam attended and presented at the FASEB Summer Research Conference on “Nutrient Sensing and Signaling in Metabolism” near Boston, USA. Well done Adam!
08.2024: Welcome Ms. Maria Almira Cleofe and Ms. Saori Flores who join us as Masters students. Welcome both!
07.2024: Congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Adam Rose on his promotion. Onwards and upwards!
04.2024: Congratulations to Dr. Yuqin Wu for competing his PhD! Onwards and upwards!
04.2024: Welcome to Ms. Antara Ghoshal who has joined us as a PhD student (co-supervision with Traven lab)
02.2024: Welcome to Mr. Ashish Foollee who has re-joined us as a PhD student! Well done on securing a stipend!
01.2024: Welcome to Mr. Okka Htin Aung who has re-joined us as a PhD student! Well done on securing a stipend!
01.2024: Adam championed and secured a NHMRC Equipment grant. Well done Adam!
11.2023: Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Rusu on securing a Diabetes Australia Research Program Project grant!
11.2023: Well done to Dr. Patricia Rusu and Mr. Yuqin Wu for giving excellent oral presentations at the Australian Physiological Society meeting. Also, well done to Adam for chairing a symposium.
11.2023: Well dome to Mr. Okka Htin Aung who completed his Masters project/thesis and internship with us!
10.2023: Welcome to Dr. Helen Stoelting who joins us as a Post-Doc!
10.2023: Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Chan for competing her PhD! Onwards and upwards!
10.2023: Well done to Ms. Emma Nguyen for completing her Honours project with us!
09.2023: Our work on early life macronutrient balance was highlighted in The Journal of Physiology
08.2023: Well done to Adam for presenting at the recent Australian Diabetes Congress in Adelaide.
08.2023: Well done to Mr. Ashish Foollee for completing his Honours project with us!
05.2023: Adam attended, chaired a session, and gave an oral presentation at the Cold Spring Harbour - Mechanisms of Metabolic Signaling meeting. Well done Adam!
03.2023: Welcome to Ms. Emma Nguyen who joins us for her Honours project.
01.2023: Mr. Okka Aung has joined the lab as a Masters student. Welcome Okka!
01.2023: Dr. Yann Yap has rejoined the lab as a Research Fellow. Welcome back Yann!
12.2022: Dr Adam Rose secured 2 x NHMRC Ideas grants. Well done Adam!
11.2022: Mr. Yuqin Wu and Dr. Adam Rose attended and gave oral presentations at the AuPS conference in Hobart. Adam organized a symposium at this event. Well done to both!
11.2022: Mr. Dongkui Mu finished his Masters project with us. Well done Dongkui!
11.2022: Ms. Alexia Efron finished her Honours project with us. Well done Lexie!
10.2022: Ms. Andrea Chan & Dr. Adam Rose presented at the 3rd Breakthrough Discoveries in Metabolic Disease & Obesity conference in Marysville. Adam also was a co-organiser of this event. Well done both!
09.2022: Dr. Patricia Rusu and Dr. Adam Rose presented at ComBio22 at Melbourne. Well done both!
09.2022: Mr. Ashish Foollee has joined the lab as a Honours student. Welcome Ashish!
06.2022: Dr. Patricia Rusu & Dr. Adam Rose gave invited presentations at the International Liver Congress in London! Top stuff!
05.2022: Dr. Adam Rose was awarded a Diabetes Australia Research Program Project grant. Super!
03.2022: Ms. Alexia Efron has joined the lab as an Honours student. Welcome Lexie!
02.2022: Mr. Dongkui Mu has joined the lab as a Masters student. Welcome Dongkui!
11.2021: Mr. Yuqin Wu and Dr. Adam Rose attended and presented (in person!) at the AuPS conference at the Melbourne hub. Nice one!
10.2021: Dr. Adam Rose presented at the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory - Mechanisms of Metabolic Signaling meeting
09.2021: Dr. Adam Rose presented at the 3rd Melbourne Immunometabolism symposium
08.2021: Ms. Andrea Chan presented at the Australian Diabetes Society meeting. Well done Andrea!
06.2021: Mr. Yuqin Wu was awarded an Australian Physiological Society student small grant! Well done Yuqin!
06.2021: Ms. Victoria Mynard has joined the groups as a Master’s student. Welcome Tori!
05.2021: Dr. Adam Rose was awarded a Diabetes Australia Research Program Project Grant. Well done Adam! https://www.monash.edu/discovery-institute/news-and-events/news/2021-articles/monash-bdi-scientists-win-diabetes-australia-awards-in-100-year-anniversary-of-insulin
04.2021: Our work on liver-muscle metabolic crosstalk in type 2 diabetes was highlighted in Nature Reviews Endocrinology: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-021-00490-5
03.2021: Our work on liver-muscle metabolic crosstalk was highlighted by the Monash BDI: https://www.monash.edu/discovery-institute/news-and-events/news/2021-articles/researchers-identify-a-way-to-reverse-high-blood-sugar-and-muscle-loss
02.2021: Dr. Adam Rose presented at the Keystone Diabetes Symposium
10.2020: Dr. Adam Rose presented at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Seminar series
10.2020: Dr. Adam Rose presented at the Austin Doyle Research in Progress Seminar Series
08.2020: Dr. Adam Rose presented at the FASEB Nutrient Sensing and Metabolic Signalling Symposium
06.2020: Our work on dietary essential amino acid restriction was widely highlighted: https://www.monash.edu/discovery-institute/news-and-events/media/2020-articles/amino-acids-may-hold-key-to-battle-against-obesity
06.2021: Our work on dietary essential amino acid restriction was highlighted by the Monash BDI: https://www.monash.edu/discovery-institute/news-and-events/news/2020-articles/essential-components-of-dietary-restriction-revealed
05.2020: Dr. Adam Rose received a Weary Dunlop Medical Research Foundation Grant. Well done Adam!
03.2020: Ms. Myra Chang has joined the groups as an Honours student. Welcome Myra!
02.2020: Mr. Yuqin Wu has joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome Yuqin!
11.2019: Dr. Patricia Rusu presented at the Monash BDI Rising Star seminar series
08.2019: Dr. Adam Rose presented at the Australia-Pacific Diabetes and Obesity Symposium & Australian Diabetes Congress
08.2019: Dr. Patricia Rusu published a paper in Cell Stem Cell: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31303549/ . Well done Patricia!
08.2019: Ms. Andrea Chan has joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome Andrea!
06.2019: Dr. Adam Rose secured an Endocrine Society of Australia Research Seed grant. Well done Adam!
05.2019: Dr. Patricia Rusu presented at the Cell Signalling and Therapeutic Implications conference.
05.2019: Dr. Patricia Rusu presented at the 3rd Australian Cancer and Metabolism conference.
03.2019: Dr. Adam Rose presented at the Deakin University School of Medicine Research Seminar Series
09.2018: Dr. Adam Rose received a Faculty of Science and FMNHS Interdisciplinary Research Seed Funding Scheme to explore amino acid nutrition and metabolism with Dr. Matthew Piper: https://www.monash.edu/discovery-institute/news-and-events/news/cross-disciplinary-approaches-to-biomedical-research
08.2018: Dr. Adam Rose presented at the FASEB Sensing and Metabolic Signalling Symposium
08.2018: Dr. Adam Rose presented at the ANZOS & Breakthrough Discoveries in Metabolism meeting
07.2018: Dr. Adam Rose presented at the UNSW Medical Sciences Departmental Seminar series
12.2017: Dr. Rose secured a Monash-Yale collaborative grant: https://www.monash.edu/discovery-institute/news-and-events/news/monash-and-yale-collaborative-grants-for-2018-announced
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