Congratulations to CMR PhD student, Wayne Du (supervised by @craigagoodman1.bsky.social & @pgregorevic.bsky.social), for being awarded the FEBS Open Bio Prize for Outstanding Poster at the 2026 New Directions in Biology and Disease of Skeletal Muscle Conference. @febsopenbio.bsky.social

Checkout his new article in The Conversation from Prof Peter Crack & the CMR's Prof Peter Crouch on "Why does motor neurone disease take so long to diagnose? And can it be treated?" @mndassoc.bsky.social #mnd #als @unimelb.edu.au theconversation.com/why-does-mot...

Congrats to the CMR's @alastairsaunders.bsky.social (@pgregorevic.bsky.social Lab), for his new paper "Reduction of primary tumor growth and metastasis in models of triple-negative breast cancer following tilorone administration via type I interferon signaling" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congratulations to Dr Amy Bongetti, former CMR PhD student in Gordon Lynch Lab, for her new paper "Evaluating skeletal muscle dysfunction and recovery in a zymosan model of critical illness in mice" journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

Congratulations to Lauren James, former CMR Masters student in the @pgregorevic.bsky.social Lab, for her first paper, "GDF10 exacerbates metastatic burden and cachexia in murine models of cancer" www.frontiersin.org/journals/phy...

WEHI researchers have found glycogen can be directly regulated using ubiquitin, in landmark findings published in Nature. The study transforms understanding into glycogen metabolism & could lead to new treatments for diseases caused by abnormal sugar storage. www.wehi.edu.au/news/sweet-d... 🧵1/2

Congrats to @marcojochem.bsky.social, Simon Cobbold & @komanderlab.bsky.social for their new Nature paper, "Ubiquitination of glycogen & metabolites in cells and tissues", that also involved the CMR's @craigagoodman1.bsky.social & @pgregorevic.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Led by @pgregorevic.bsky.social, the CMR is collaborating with Facio BioTherapies Pty Ltd to advance precision targeted medicines & accelerate pre-clinical development of innovative therapeutic strategies targeting the underlying genetic drivers of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD).

Congrats to Dan Ham, Chris Fry, the CMR's Avnika Ruparelia, @ngoshyuan.bsky.social & @severinelamon.bsky.social for their new @aups-physiology.bsky.social symposium paper: Treating age-related loss of muscle mass & function: Where should we be focusing? physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

To celebrate International Women's Day, we would like to recognise the dedication and hard work of the amazing women (staff and students) of the CMR. #IWD26 @unimelb.edu.au

Feb 28 is Rare Disease Day There are >6000 rare diseases affecting >300 million people, incl Duchenne (DMD), Myotonic (DM) & Facioscapulohumeral (FSHD) muscular dystrophies & Motor Neuron Disease (MND) that the CMR studies. Today we let our bright colors shine to raise awareness

Congratulations to CMR Masters student, Scott Carter, for being included in the Dean's Honours List for academic excellence. The CMR, and Scott's supervisors, @pgregorevic.bsky.social and @craigagoodman1.bsky.social, are very proud. Well done.

Congrats to Chloe Li on her successful PhD oration on muscle plasticity in DMD. Great job Chloe! Thesis to follow soon Proud supervisors: @kristyswid.bsky.social, @justinhardeephd.bsky.social & Gordon Lynch #muscle #DMD @unimelb.edu.au @mda.org @afm-telethon.bsky.social @worldduchenne.bsky.social

The CMR's Prof Paul Gregorevic @pgregorevic.bsky.social gave the Keynote address at this week's Science Teachers Association of Victoria (STAV) VCE Conference, inspiring educators to reflect on the impact they have & on how research can be showcased in the classroom stav.org.au @unimelb.edu.au

Congrations to @kristyswid.bsky.social , Prof Gordon Lynch and Team for their new BBA paper, "FcRn: A novel target to attenuate rheumatoid cachexia in arthritic mice" @unimelb.edu.au @wehi-research.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to Dr Dylan Chung, Prof Enzo Porrello, Prof Gordon Lynch & Team for their new paper "Intrinsic muscle stem cell dysfunction underlies functional deficits in models of type 1 diabetes" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to Nick Giourmas & Alan Hayes for their new paper, "β-Hydroxy-β-Methylbutyrate enhances fast-twitch muscle & mitochondrial function, histopathology, & mTORC1 signalling in the mdx dystrophic mouse", that included the CMR's @craigagoodman1.bsky.social journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Congrats to the CMR's Mriga Dutt, Ben Parker and Team for their new Nature Comms paper "Phosphoproteomics of aged insulin-resistant bone identifies P70S6K phosphorylation of AFF4 as a gene-specific transcriptional regulator" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A big day of graduations for the CMR, as PhD students, Amy Bongetti, Alastair Saunders & Chris Karagiannis, and Masters student, Scott Carter, received their awards with proud supervisors Gordon Lynch, Marissa Caldow, Yasmine Ali Abdelhamid, Paul Gregorevic, Craig Goodman

A great time was had at this year's CMR end-of-year celebration, throwing darts and eating pizza at Oche. The competition was fierce! The CMR wishes everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year 🎄🎁🎉🥳🎀🎈

Congrats to the CMR's Dr Amy Bongetti & Prof Gordon Lynch for contributing to this new international Perspective on the management of ICU acquired weakness link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congrats to Audrey Chan, Gordon Lynch, Itamar Levinger & Team for their paper, Short-term moderate-intensity treadmill running may confer a greater benefit to bone strength than high-intensity treadmill running in 12-month-old C57BL/6 mice www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8756328225002273

Congrats to Victor Streltsov, Joseph Beckman, Blaine Roberts & Team for their new Neurobiology of Disease paper on heterodimeric zinc-deficient SOD1, that included the CMRs, Prof Peter Crouch #ALS www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996125004061

Congrats to the CMR's Alastair Saunders, Paul Gregorevic and Team for their new AJPCellPhys paper "Cachexia progression differs among mouse models of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer" #Cancer #cachexia journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

Congrats to Dr Yasmine Ali Abdelhamid, Prof Adam Deane & Team for their new paper on the effect of enteral glycine in critically ill patients, that also involved the CMR's Amy Bongetti, @CaldowMarissa and @GordonSLynch www.clinicalnutritionjournal.com/article/S0261-5614(25)00271-7/

Checkout the new paper from @hughesdc-muscle.bsky.social & Team, which also involved the CMR's @craigagoodman1.bsky.social Response of UBR-box E3 ubiquitin ligases & protein quality control pathways to perturbations in protein synthesis & skeletal muscle size journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Congratulations to the CMR's @kristyswid.bsky.social and Prof Gordon Lynch for their new review paper on "Translational progress in the development of pharmacotherapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @mda.org

Congratulations to CMR PhD student, John Nguyen, on receiving a @aegeanconf.bsky.social Trainee Award at the 6th International Conference on Stem Cells, in Sissi, Crete, Greece. #muscle #Myotwitter #stemcells #regeneration #metabolism #physiology

Congratulations to John Nguyen on a successful PhD oration: ‘Metabolic control of skeletal muscle regeneration’. Now for the thesis! Supervisors: Prof Gordon Lynch, @kristyswid.bsky.social, Assoc Prof Kristin Brown, @craigagoodman1.bsky.social #muscle #stemcells #regeneration #injury #metabolism

The CMR gathers wearing green to celebrate International Myotonic Dystrophy Awareness Day to promote research & funding to improve the lives of those affected by DM, a neuromuscular disease causing progressive muscle weakness @mda.org @myotonicstrong.bsky.social #muscle

The CMR is on a mission to understand and treat DMD and other neuromuscular disorders. We remain deeply committed to, and passionately support, #WDAD2025 #muscle #Duchenne #dystrophy #muscular

‪ Congrats to Steffen Raun, Lykke Sylow and Team for their new Redox Biology paper, "Skeletal muscle Rac1 mediates exercise training adaptations towards muscle glycogen resynthesis and protein synthesis", that included the CMR's Prof Paul Gregorevic www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to Sebastian BassStringer, Prof Juli McMullen & Team for their new paper "Generation and evaluation of a novel PI3K-targeting gene therapy in the failing mouse heart and healthy sheep heart", that included the CMR's Prof Paul Gregorevic www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to Kevin (Yansong) Lu & Prof Pete Currie of the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI), and the CMR's Dr Avnika Ruparelia, for their new review paper, "Zebrafish: Lessons and Insights into Skeletal Muscle Research" cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/earl...

Check out the new post-doc opportunity in the Lab of Prof Matt Watt, in collaboration with an industry partner, on muscle signalling and metabolism related to metabolic disease and future obesity treatments unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...

It's time to register for the 2025 Victorian Muscle Network Symposium! 🚨 Please register now: victorianmusclenetwork.wordpress.com 🗓️Make sure to register by the 14th of September 👀 Keynote speakers to be confirmed soon

Congrats to Bryan Remaily, Chris Coss, Mitch Phelps, and Team, for their new JCSM Commications paper "Intramuscular CMT-167 Tumours Produce a Mild Cachexia Phenotype in C57BL/6J Mice", that included the CMR's Prof Paul Gregorevic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The CMR recognises #WorldSarcopeniaDay. Interrogating ways to preserve muscle function as we age is a major theme of study in the CMR & our researchers continue to make contributions to the field. #Myotwitter #sarcopenia #aging #longevity #health #exercise

Checkout the new review paper from the CMR's Julian Wong, Yaan-Kit Ng, Ronnie Blazev & @benparkerlab.bsky.social & the NNF CBMR's Jeppe Kjærgaard & @adeshmukh.bsky.social on Skeletal Muscle Proteomics: Considerations and Opportunities. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Congratulations to Amy Bongetti, Dr Marissa Caldow, Dr Yasmine Ali Abdelhamid and Prof Gordon Lynch for their new review paper, "Evaluating skeletal muscle wasting and weakness in models of critical illness". #muscle #ICU portlandpress.com/clinsci/arti...

Congratulations to Lee-Anne Chapple,the CMR's Gordon Lynch and Olav Rooyackers for their new review on "Impaired muscle metabolism in the ICU: interrogating the underlying pathophysiology". journals.lww.com/co-criticalc...

The Australian Physiological Society (AuPS) is now on BlueSky: ‪@aups-physiology.bsky.social‬

Congrats to Dr Dean Campelj, Prof Emma Rybalka & Team for their new JCSM paper "Haptoglobin & Glutamine Synthetase May Biomark Cachexia Induced by Antiacute Myeloid Leukaemia Chemotherapy" that also involved the CMR's @craigagoodman1.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Victorian Muscle Network (VMN) ✨SAVE THE DATE!✨ Please join us for the 8th Victorian Muscle Network Symposium to be held on Friday the 14th of November at Monash Caulfield Campus. Keep an eye out for updates on keynote speakers and registrations👀 Looking forward to seeing you all there in 2025 🥳

Well done Chris Karagiannis for delivering an outstanding PhD oration! The CMR and his supervisors, Prof Paul Gregorevic, @craigagoodman1.bsky.social & Dr Rachel Thomson, are proud. Now for the thesis. #cancer #cachexia #muscle

Congrats Amy Bongetti on your PhD thesis submission! Flanked by proud supervisors, Dr Marissa Caldow, Dr Yasmine Ali Abdelhamid , Prof Gordon Lynch #muscle #ICU #physiology

Check out the News and Views in @natmetabolism.nature.com by Sue Bodine & the CMR's @craigagoodman1.bsky.social on a new study from Troy Hornberger's lab on mechanically-sensitive MKK3b/6, p38, MK2, mTORC1 signaling mediating resistance exercise-induced muscle growth www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Congrats to Ronnie Blazev, @benparkerlab.bsky.social and Team for their new paper, "Site-specific quantification of the in vivo UFMylome reveals myosin modification in ALS", that also involved CMR members Yann-Kit Ng, @craigagoodman1.bsky.social & Paul Gregorevic #ALS www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Congrats to Maddy Meli & Brett Comer for their paper, "Ngn2-Induced Differentiation of the NG108-15 Cell Line Enhances Motor Neuronal Differentiation and Neuromuscular Junction Formation", also involving the CMR's @kristyswid.bsky.social Marissa Caldow & Gordon Lynch www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/15...